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Ouranosaurus
Ouranosaurus nigeriensis (Ouranosaurus · Ouranosaurus)
Known only from fossils. The IUCN Red List assesses only species extant since 1500 CE, so fossil taxa are not assigned a category.
💡 Everyday Comparisons for Size, Mass & Speed
- 💡 Its estimated body length of about 7 m (representative value for the genus) is the length of one and a half passenger cars (about 4.5 m) (Comparison).
- 💡 A length of 7 m is about two and a half table-tennis tables (2.74 m long) placed end to end (Comparison).
Reference standards: coach bus ~12 m, mid-size car ~4.9 m, compact car ~1 t, basketball hoop 3.05 m, credit card 8.56 cm.
📖 1. Overview
Ouranosaurus nigeriensis (genus Ouranosaurus) was a herbivorous dinosaur that lived in what is now Niger in Africa during the Early Cretaceous.
🦴 2. Anatomy & Morphology
Its body length listed in the Natural History Museum, London guide is about 7 m (representative value for the genus, estimated).
🔍 3. Fossil Record & Paleoecology
The guide introduces it as herbivorous and notes that its fossils were found in Niger.
🇰🇷 4. Connection to Korea
No direct record connecting this species to Korea has been found.
📚 Sources & References
- • Fossil taxon — the IUCN Red List assesses only species living or extinct since 1500
- • paleobiodb.org — basicTaxonInfo
- • wikidata.org — Q20718917
- • commons.wikimedia.org — File:Ouranosaurus MSNVE 3714.png
- • nhm.ac.uk — ouranosaurus.html
- • Silhouette: PhyloPic — Tasman Dixon · CC0 1.0
Recorded dimensions are widely cited representative estimates from public literature and may vary by study or specimen.