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Book Fauna Palaestina 4 Year 2014 By Prof Dr Norman Ali Bassam Khalaf von Jaffa ISBN 978-9950-383-77-7

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carcharodontosaurid Veterupristisaurus, the stegosaurid<br />

Kentrosaurus and the iguanodontian Dysalotosaurus. Dinosaurs<br />

shared this paleoenvironment with pterosaurs like Pterodactylus<br />

and Rhamphorhynchus, as well as with early mammals. Paul<br />

(1988) noted that Elaphrosaurus bambergi was too small to prey on<br />

the sauropods and stegosaurs present in its paleoenvironment,<br />

and instead, it likely hunted the small and swift ornithopod<br />

herbivores (Wikipedia).<br />

Ichnology<br />

Dinosaur footprints from the Niger Republic and from Jerusalem<br />

were attributed to Elaphrosaurus. This assignment is considered<br />

inconclusive (Wikipedia).<br />

Ceratosauria<br />

Ceratosaurs are members of a group of theropod dinosaurs<br />

defined as all theropods sharing a more recent common ancestry<br />

with Ceratosaurus than with birds. There is no agreed upon listing<br />

of species or diagnostic characters of Ceratosauria, though they<br />

were less derived anatomically than the more diverse Tetanurae.<br />

According to the latest and most accepted theory, Ceratosauria<br />

includes the Late Jurassic to Late Cretaceous theropods<br />

Ceratosaurus, Elaphrosaurus, and Abelisaurus, found primarily<br />

(though not exclusively) in the Southern Hemisphere. Originally,<br />

Ceratosauria included the above dinosaurs plus the Late Triassic<br />

to Early Jurassic Coelophysoidea and Dilophosauridae, implying<br />

a much earlier divergence of ceratosaurs from other theropods.<br />

However, most recent studies have shown that coelophysoids and<br />

dilophosaurids do not form a natural group with other<br />

ceratosaurs, and are excluded from this group (Wikipedia).<br />

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