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A fossil unearthed in the Middle Atlas Mountains of Morocco is now officially the oldest-known plant-eating cerapodan dinosaur, pushing back the evolutionary timeline of this major herbivorous group ...

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More information: Susannah Maidment et al, The world's oldest cerapodan ornithischian dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic of Morocco, Royal Society Open Science (2025).

The earliest example of an important and widespread group of dinosaurs has been found in North Africa. A leg bone fragment found in Morocco is the first sign of the cerapodans, which became Earth’s ...