Lurdusaurus | Natural History Museum
Natural History Museum, London
Gennemgået: 10.9.2026
Museum overview page summarising the size, build, age, classification and Nigerien provenance of Lurdusaurus, used as the general reference for the species descriptions.
Åbn kilde ↗Structural Extremes in a Cretaceous Dinosaur
PLOS ONE
Gennemgået: 10.9.2026
Peer-reviewed study of the Gadoufaoua fauna documenting the Elrhaz Formation as a fluvial floodplain palaeoenvironment with meandering rivers and lush vegetation shared by Lurdusaurus and its contemporaries.
Åbn kilde ↗Large ornithopods | Dino Directory
Natural History Museum, London
Gennemgået: 10.9.2026
Museum reference page covering the large ornithopods, including Lurdusaurus, and documenting their plant-eating (herbivorous) diet.
Åbn kilde ↗Text S1: Geologic Setting — El Rhaz Formation (supplement to 'Structural Extremes in a Cretaceous Dinosaur')
PLOS ONE
Gennemgået: 10.9.2026
Extinct taxon; conservation status NE
Åbn kilde ↗Lurdusaurus | Natural History Museum
Natural History Museum, London
Gennemgået: 10.9.2026
Museum overview page summarising the size, build, age, classification and Nigerien provenance of Lurdusaurus, used as the general reference for the species descriptions.
Åbn kilde ↗Lurdusaurus | Natural History Museum
Natural History Museum, London
Gennemgået: 10.9.2026
Museum overview page summarising the size, build, age, classification and Nigerien provenance of Lurdusaurus, used as the general reference for the species descriptions.
Åbn kilde ↗Lurdusaurus — Fossil Wiki (summarising Taquet & Russell 1999 and Paul 2016)
fossil.fandom.com
Gennemgået: 10.9.2026
VERIFY:length_min_m: stored=9 suggested=7 confidence=medium — The lowest published length estimate is Gregory S. Paul's (2016) revision of roughly 7 m, well below the stored 9 m minimum; the source states Paul 'proposed a significantly lower size estimate of 7 m in length'. Storing 9 m as the minimum excludes the most recent published revision.
Åbn kilde ↗Lurdusaurus — Fossil Wiki (summarising Taquet & Russell 1999 and Paul 2016)
fossil.fandom.com
Gennemgået: 10.9.2026
VERIFY:length_max_m: stored=10.5 suggested=9 confidence=medium — The maximum length supported by the literature is the ~9 m total body length reconstructed by Taquet & Russell (1999) for holotype GDF 1700 (about a 4 m tail plus trunk and 1.6 m neck). No published source supports 10.5 m.
Åbn kilde ↗Un nouveau dinosaure ornithischien de construction massive du Crétacé inférieur du Niger / A massively-constructed iguanodont from Gadoufaoua, lower Cretaceous of Niger
Annales de Paléontologie (Elsevier)
Gennemgået: 10.9.2026
Original peer-reviewed description erecting Lurdusaurus arenatus and placing it among ornithischian iguanodontids on skeletal-anatomical grounds.
Åbn kilde ↗PBDB Taxon: Lurdusaurus arenatus Taquet & Russell 1999
Paleobiology Database
Gennemgået: 10.9.2026
Database taxon record listing the known fossil occurrence at Gadoufaoua (Elrhaz Formation, Niger) and the Aptian stratigraphic range of the species.
Åbn kilde ↗Lurdusaurus | Natural History Museum
Natural History Museum, London
Gennemgået: 10.9.2026
Museum overview page summarising the size, build, age, classification and Nigerien provenance of Lurdusaurus, used as the general reference for the species descriptions.
Åbn kilde ↗