Outline: a typical early ornithischian
Stormbergia
"from the Stormberg"
- Lived
- 201 to 193 million years ago, Early Jurassic
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Early ornithischians
- Named by
- Butler 2005
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
No finds with map coordinates are recorded yet.
Field notes
About Stormbergia
What it was like
Stormbergia was a small, two-legged plant eater, known from parts of several skeletons. It had long legs for running and a beak for cropping plants.
Some scientists think it is simply a grown-up Lesothosaurus.
Its world
It lived in the Early Jurassic in what is now southern Africa.
How it was found
Butler named Stormbergia in 2005.
Close relatives
Other members of Neornithischia
- NanosaurusLate Jurassic to Early Cretaceous
- EnigmacursorLate Jurassic to Early Cretaceous
- AgilisaurusMiddle Jurassic to Late Jurassic
- PulaosaurusMiddle Jurassic to Late Jurassic
- YandusaurusMiddle Jurassic
- MinimocursorLate Jurassic to Early Cretaceous
- HexinlusaurusMiddle Jurassic to Late Jurassic
- SanxiasaurusEarly Jurassic to Middle Jurassic
Sources: WikidataNamed in: R. J. Butler. 2005. The 'fabrosaurid' ornithischian dinosaurs of the Upper Elliot Formation (Lower Jurassic) of South Africa and Lesotho. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 145(2):175-218