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List of African dinosaurs

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This is a list of non-avian dinosaurs whose remains have been recovered in Africa. Africa has a rich fossil record. It is rich in Triassic and Early Jurassic dinosaurs. African dinosaurs from these time periods include Megapnosaurus, Dracovenator, Melanorosaurus, Massospondylus, Euskelosaurus, Heterodontosaurus, Abrictosaurus, and Lesothosaurus. In the Middle Jurassic, the sauropods Atlasaurus, Chebsaurus, Jobaria, and Spinophorosaurus, flourished, as well as the theropod Afrovenator. The Late Jurassic is well represented in Africa, mainly thanks to the spectacular Tendaguru Formation in Lindi Region of Tanzania. Veterupristisaurus, Ostafrikasaurus, Elaphrosaurus, Giraffatitan, Dicraeosaurus, Janenschia, Tornieria, Tendaguria, Kentrosaurus, and Dysalotosaurus are among the dinosaurs whose remains have been recovered from Tendaguru. This fauna seems to show strong similarities to that of the Morrison Formation in the United States and the Lourinha Formation in Portugal. For example, similar theropods, ornithopods and sauropods have been found in both the Tendaguru and the Morrison. This has important biogeographical implications.

The Early Cretaceous in Africa is known primarily from the northern part of the continent, particularly Niger. Suchomimus, Elrhazosaurus, Rebbachisaurus, Nigersaurus, Kryptops, Nqwebasaurus, and Paranthodon are some of the Early Cretaceous dinosaurs known from Africa. The Early Cretaceous was an important time for the dinosaurs of Africa because it was when Africa finally separated from South America, forming the South Atlantic Ocean. This was an important event because now the dinosaurs of Africa started developing endemism because of isolation. The Late Cretaceous of Africa is known mainly from North Africa. During the early part of the Late Cretaceous, North Africa was home to a rich dinosaur fauna. It includes Spinosaurus, Carcharodontosaurus, Rugops, Bahariasaurus, Deltadromeus, Paralititan, Aegyptosaurus, and Ouranosaurus.

Criteria for inclusion

The genus must appear on the List of dinosaur genera.
At least one named species of the creature must have been found in Africa.

List of African dinosaurs

Valid genera

Name	Year	Formation	Location	Notes	Images
Aardonyx	2010	Elliot Formation (Early Jurassic, Sinemurian)	South Africa	Primarily bipedal but also capable of quadrupedal locomotion	[[File:Fig 2 - Aardonyx life restoration by Matthew Bonnan.jpg	200px]]
Abrictosaurus	1975	Elliot Formation (Early Jurassic, Hettangian to Sinemurian)	Lesotho
South Africa	Known from two skulls, one of which possesses tusks, which may be an indication of sexual dimorphism	[[File:Abrictosaurus dinosaur.png	200px]]
Adratiklit	2020	El Mers Group (Middle Jurassic, Bathonian)	Morocco	One of the oldest known stegosaurs. Related to Late Jurassic European forms despite its early age	[[File:Adratiklit boulahfa.png	200px]]
Aegyptosaurus	1932	Bahariya Formation, Continental intercalaire?, Farak Formation? (Late Cretaceous, Cenomanian)	Egypt
Niger?	Its holotype specimen was destroyed in World War II	[[File:Aegyptosaurus LM.png	200px]]
Afromimus	2017	Elrhaz Formation (Early Cretaceous, Aptian to Albian)	Niger	Originally described as an African ornithomimosaur, but later redescribed as a possible noasaurid	[[File:Afromimus LM.png	200px]]
Afrovenator	1994	Tiourarén Formation (Middle Jurassic to Late Jurassic, Bathonian to Oxfordian)	Niger	Originally thought to hail from the Early Cretaceous	[[File:Afrovenator reconstruction.png	200px]]
Ajnabia	2021	Ouled Abdoun Basin (Late Cretaceous, Maastrichtian)	Morocco	The first hadrosaurid known from Africa. Closely related to European lambeosaurines	[[File:Life reconstruction of Ajnabia odysseus.png	200px]]
Algoasaurus	1904	Kirkwood Formation (Early Cretaceous, Berriasian to Valanginian)	South Africa	Today known from only a few bones. Several more may have been made into bricks before they could be studied	[[File:Algoasaurus.jpg	200px]]
Angolatitan	2011	Itombe Formation (Late Cretaceous, Coniacian)	Angola	The first non-avian dinosaur described from Angola	[[File:Angolatitan LM.png	200px]]
Antetonitrus	2003	Elliot Formation (Early Jurassic, Hettangian)	South Africa	Had weight-bearing adaptations in all its limbs, although its forelimbs retain adaptations for grasping	[[File:Antetonitrus reconstruction.jpg	200px]]
Arcusaurus	2011	Elliot Formation (Early Jurassic, Pliensbachian)	South Africa	Combines traits of basal and advanced sauropodomorphs	[[File:Arcusaurus LM.png	200px]]
Atlasaurus	1999	Guettioua Formation (Middle Jurassic, Bathonian to Callovian)	Morocco	Possessed relatively elongated legs for a sauropod	[[File:Atlasaurus.jpg	200px]]
Australodocus	2007	Tendaguru Formation (Late Jurassic, Kimmeridgian to Tithonian)	Tanzania	last1=Mannion	first1=P. D.	last2=Upchurch	first2=P.	last3=Schwarz	first3=D.	last4=Wings	first4=O.	title=Taxonomic affinities of the putative titanosaurs from the Late Jurassic Tendaguru Formation of Tanzania: phylogenetic and biogeographic implications for eusauropod dinosaur evolution	journal=Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society	date=2019	volume=185	issue=3	pages=784–909	doi=10.1093/zoolinnean/zly068	url=https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10068573/	hdl=10044/1/64080	hdl-access=free }}	[[File:Australodocus LM.png	200px]]
Bahariasaurus	1934	Bahariya Formation, Farak Formation? (Late Cretaceous, Cenomanian)	Egypt
Niger?	Large but known from very few remains	[[File:Bahariasaurus ingens, like megaraptora.jpg	200px]]
Berberosaurus	2007	Azilal Formation (Early Jurassic, Toarcian)	Morocco	One of the oldest known ceratosaurs	[[File:Berberosaurus life restoration 2019.jpg	200px]]
Blikanasaurus	1985	Elliot Formation (Late Triassic, Norian)	South Africa	A "hyper-robust" form that niche partitioned with other Late Triassic Elliot Formation sauropodomorphs	[[File:Blikanasaurus pes.png	200px]]
Carcharodontosaurus	1931	Aïn el Guettar Formation?, Continental intercalaire, Echkar Formation, Elrhaz Formation?, Kem Kem Group, Wadi Milk Formation? (Late Cretaceous, Cenomanian)	Algeria
Morocco
Niger
Sudan?
Tunisia?	One of the largest carnivorous dinosaurs. Two species are known	[[File:Carcharodontosaurus.png	200px]]
Chebsaurus	2005	Aïssa Formation (Middle Jurassic, Callovian)	Algeria	Known from two juvenile specimens	[[File:Chebsaurus.jpg	200px]]
Chenanisaurus	2017	Ouled Abdoun Basin (Late Cretaceous, Maastrichtian)	Morocco	Potentially represents a lineage of abelisaurids endemic to Africa	[[File:Chenanisaurus barbaricus.jpg	200px]]
Cristatusaurus	1998	Elrhaz Formation (Early Cretaceous, Aptian to Albian)	Niger	Usually seen as a synonym of Suchomimus, although some studies consider it to be a valid genus	[[File:Cristatusaurus lapparenti by PaleoGeek.png	200px]]
Deltadromeus	1996	Kem Kem Group (Late Cretaceous, Cenomanian)	Morocco	Its precise phylogenetic position has been historically unstable, with multiple interpretations being suggested in the scientific literature	[[File:Deltadromeus skeletal.jpg	200px]]
Dicraeosaurus	1914	Tendaguru Formation (Late Jurassic, Kimmeridgian to Tithonian)	Tanzania	A short-necked, low-browsing sauropod. Two species are known	[[File:Dicraeosaurus hansemanni22.jpg	200px]]
Dracovenator	2005	Elliot Formation (Early Jurassic, Hettangian)	South Africa	Only known from fragments of a skull, but those are enough to tell that it was related to Dilophosaurus	[[File:Dracovenator.jpg	200px]]
Dysalotosaurus	1919	Tendaguru Formation (Late Jurassic, Kimmeridgian)	Tanzania	Known from multiple remains that revealed much about its life history, diet and even disease	[[File:Dysalotosaurus lettowvorbecki reconstruction.png	200px]]
Elaphrosaurus	1920	Tendaguru Formation (Late Jurassic, Kimmeridgian)	Tanzania	Possessed a relatively shallow chest for a medium-sized theropod	[[File:Elaphrosaurus.jpg	200px]]
Elrhazosaurus	2009	Elrhaz Formation (Early Cretaceous, Aptian)	Niger	Closely related to Valdosaurus	[[File:Elrhazosaurus NT.png	200px]]
Eocarcharia	2008	Elrhaz Formation (Early Cretaceous, Aptian to Albian)	Niger	last1=Cau	first1=Andrea	author1-link=Andrea Cau	last2=Paterna	first2=Alessandro	date=May 2025	title=Beyond the Stromer's Riddle: the impact of lumping and splitting hypotheses on the systematics of the giant predatory dinosaurs from northern Africa	url=https://www.italianjournalofgeosciences.it/297/article-1220/beyond-the-stromer-s-riddle-the-impact-of-lumping-and-splitting-hypotheses-on-the-systematics-of-the-giant-predatory-dinosaurs-from-northern-africa.html	journal=Italian Journal of Geosciences	volume=144	issue=2	pages=1–24	doi=10.3301/IJG.2025.10	url-access=subscription }}	[[File:Eocarcharia (holotype, MNN GAD2).png	200px]]
Eocursor	2007	Elliot Formation (Early Jurassic, Sinemurian)	South Africa	One of the most completely known early ornithischians	[[File:Eocursor BW.jpg	200px]]
Eucnemesaurus	1920	Elliot Formation (Late Triassic, Carnian to Norian)	South Africa	Some fossils assigned to this genus were originally interpreted as those of a giant herrerasaurid	[[File:Eucnemesaurus tibia.jpg	200px]]
Euskelosaurus	1866	Elliot Formation (Late Triassic, Norian to Rhaetian)	Lesotho
South Africa
Zimbabwe	Originally thought to have been bow-legged	[[File:Euskelosaurus africanus ischia.jpg	200px]]
Geranosaurus	1911	Clarens Formation (Early Jurassic, Pliensbachian to Toarcian)	South Africa	Poorly known but potentially a heterodontosaurid	[[File:Geranosaurus atavus mandible.jpg	200px]]
Giraffatitan	1988	Tendaguru Formation (Late Jurassic, Kimmeridgian to Tithonian)	Tanzania	Popularly associated with Brachiosaurus but several differences between the two have been noted	[[File:Giraffatitan DB.jpg	200px]]
Gryponyx	1911	Elliot Formation (Early Jurassic, Hettangian to Sinemurian)	South Africa	Although usually seen as a synonym of Massospondylus, at least one study has found it to be distantly related	[[File:Annals of the South African Museum. Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum (18234532989).jpg	200px]]
Heterodontosaurus	1962	Clarens Formation, Elliot Formation (Early Jurassic, Hettangian to Sinemurian)	South Africa	Possessed three types of teeth, including analogues of incisors and tusks, as well as a keratinous beak	[[File:Heterodontosaurus restoration.jpg	200px]]
Igai	2023	Quseir Formation (Late Cretaceous, Campanian)	Egypt	More closely related to European titanosaurs than to southern African ones	[[File:Igai semkhu.png	200px]]
Ignavusaurus	2010	Elliot Formation (Early Jurassic, Hettangian)	Lesotho	Only known from a single, mostly articulated juvenile skeleton with a badly crushed skull	[[File:Ignavusaurus Restoration.jpg	200px]]
Inosaurus	1960	Bahariya Formation?, Echkar Formation?, Tegama Group? (Early Cretaceous, Albian?)	Egypt?
Niger	Very poorly known
Iyuku	2022	Kirkwood Formation (Early Cretaceous, Valanginian)	South Africa	Uniquely known from an assemblage of mostly hatchling and juvenile fossils
Janenschia	1991	Tendaguru Formation (Late Jurassic, Kimmeridgian to Tithonian)	Tanzania	author1=Daniela Schwarz	author2=Philip Mannion	author3=Oliver Wings	author4=Christian Meyer	year=2020	title=Re-description of the sauropod dinosaur Amanzia ("Ornithopsis/Cetiosauriscus") greppini n. gen. and other vertebrate remains from the Kimmeridgian (Late Jurassic) Reuchenette Formation of Moutier, Switzerland.	journal=Swiss Journal of Geosciences	volume=113	doi=10.1186/s00015-020-00355-5	doi-access=free }}	[[File:Janenschia.jpg	200px]]
Jobaria	1999	Tiourarén Formation (Middle Jurassic to Late Jurassic, Bathonian to Oxfordian)	Niger	Known from an almost complete skeleton	[[File:Jobaria tiguidensis steveoc.jpg	200px]]
Kangnasaurus	1915	Kalahari Deposits Formation (Early Cretaceous, Aptian)	South Africa	Comparisons have been made with dryosaurids but at least two studies suggest a position within Elasmaria	[[File:Iziko Thigh bone kangnasaurus.JPG	200px]]
Karongasaurus	2005	Dinosaur Beds (Early Cretaceous, Aptian)	Malawi	Described from only a mandible and isolated teeth	[[File:Karongasaurus mandible.png	200px]]
Kentrosaurus	1915	Tendaguru Formation (Late Jurassic, Kimmeridgian to Tithonian)	Tanzania	Possessed two rows of plates that gradually transitioned into spikes towards the tail, as well as a long spike on each shoulder	[[File:Kentrosaurus aethiopicus.png	200px]]
Kholumolumo	2020	Elliot Formation (Late Triassic, Norian)	Lesotho	Before its formal description, it had been informally referred to as "Kholumolumosaurus" and "Thotobolosaurus". The latter name means "trash heap lizard" in Sesotho, referring to how the holotype was originally found close to a trash heap	[[File:Kholumolumo pes.png	200px]]
Kryptops	2008	Elrhaz Formation (Early Cretaceous, Aptian to Albian)	Niger	Postcranial remains referred to this genus have been later found to come from an allosauroid, perhaps a metriacanthosaurid	[[File:Kryptops life restoration.jpg	200px]]
Ledumahadi	2018	Elliot Formation (Early Jurassic, Hettangian to Sinemurian)	South Africa	One of the largest Early Jurassic dinosaurs, estimated as weighing 12 tonne despite lacking columnar limbs like later sauropods	[[File:Ledumahadi NT.jpg	200px]]
Lesothosaurus	1978	Clarens Formation, Elliot Formation (Early Jurassic, Hettangian to Sinemurian)	Lesotho
South Africa	Possibly an opportunistic omnivore, feeding on meat during seasons when plants are not available	[[File:Lesothosaurus diagnosticus.png	200px]]
Lurdusaurus	1999	Elrhaz Formation (Early Cretaceous, Aptian to Albian)	Niger	The proportions of its body and limbs suggest it may have been a semiaquatic herbivore similar to a hippopotamus	[[File:Lurdusaurus1.jpg	200px]]
Lycorhinus	1924	Elliot Formation (Early Jurassic, Hettangian to Sinemurian)	South Africa	Originally misidentified as a cynodont	[[File:Lycorhinus portrait.png	200px]]
Malawisaurus	1993	Dinosaur Beds (Early Cretaceous, Aptian)	Malawi	Known from abundant material, including elements from the skull and osteoderms, but they may not represent a single taxon	[[File:Malawisaurus-head.jpg	200px]]
Mansourasaurus	2018	Quseir Formation (Late Cretaceous, Campanian)	Egypt	last1=Sallam	first1=H.	last2=Gorscak	first2=E.	last3=O'Connor	first3=P.	last4=El-Dawoudi	first4=I.	last5=El-Sayed	first5=S.	last6=Saber	first6=S.	title=New Egyptian sauropod reveals Late Cretaceous dinosaur dispersal between Europe and Africa	journal=Nature	volume=2	issue=3	pages=445–451	date=2017-06-26	doi=10.1038/s41559-017-0455-5	pmid=29379183	s2cid=3375335 }}	[[File:Mansourasaurus NT.jpg	200px]]
Massospondylus	1854	Bushveld Sandstone, Clarens Formation, Elliot Formation, Forest Sandstone (Early Jurassic, Hettangian to Pliensbachian)	Lesotho
South Africa
Zimbabwe	Abundant remains have been discovered. Several specimens were once assigned to their own genera and species	[[File:Massospondylus TD.png	200px]]
Mbiresaurus	2022	Pebbly Arkose Formation (Late Triassic, Carnian)	Zimbabwe	One of the oldest dinosaurs known from Africa. Its discovery proves that the earliest dinosaurs were restricted to high latitudes
Melanorosaurus	1924	Elliot Formation (Late Triassic, Norian)	South Africa	A robust, quadrupedal herbivore. Some specimens assigned to this genus may not represent the same taxon	[[File:Melanorosaurus life restoration 2018.jpg	200px]]
Meroktenos	2016	Elliot Formation (Late Triassic, Norian to Rhaetian)	Lesotho	Its femur was unusually robust for an animal of its size	[[File:Right femur of Meroktenos.png	200px]]
Minqaria	2024	Ouled Abdoun Basin (Late Cretaceous, Maastrichtian)	Morocco	Known from a partial skull	[[File:Minqaria TD.png	200px]]
Mnyamawamtuka	2019	Galula Formation (Early Cretaceous to Late Cretaceous, Aptian to Cenomanian)	Tanzania	Its specific name, moyowamkia, is Kiswahili for "heart tail", which references the heart-shaped cross-section of its caudal vertebrae	[[File:Mnyamawamtuka moyowamkia.jpg	200px]]
Musankwa	2024	Pebbly Arkose Formation, (Late Triassic, Norian)	Zimbabwe	The fourth dinosaur genus to be named from Zimbabwe	[[File:Musankwa TD.png	200px]]
Ngwevu	2019	Clarens Formation (Early Jurassic, Pliensbachian to Toarcian)	South Africa	Known from a skull originally assigned to Massospondylus. It was assigned to its own genus based on its unique proportions	[[File:Ngwevu intloko.jpg	200px]]
Nigersaurus	1999	Elrhaz Formation (Early Cretaceous, Aptian to Albian)	Niger	All of its teeth were at the front of its jaws, which were wider than the rest of its skull, an adaptation to low browsing	[[File:Nigersaurus model aus.jpg	200px]]
Nqwebasaurus	2000	Kirkwood Formation (Early Cretaceous, Berriasian)	South Africa	The first non-avian coelurosaur named from mainland Africa	[[File:Nqwebasaurus.png	200px]]
Orosaurus	1867	Elliot Formation? (Late Triassic, Norian to Rhaetian)	South Africa	Probably a synonym of Euskelosaurus
Ostafrikasaurus	2012	Tendaguru Formation (Late Jurassic, Tithonian)	Tanzania	Described from a single tooth as an early spinosaurid but ceratosaurid affinities have also been proposed	[[File:Ostafrikasaurus holotype tooth by PaleoGeek.png	200px]]
Ouranosaurus	1976	Elrhaz Formation (Early Cretaceous, Aptian)	Niger	Had long neural spines that projected from its vertebrae, which may have supported a sail or hump in life	[[File:Ouranosaurus nigeriensis restoration.png	200px]]
Paralititan	2001	Bahariya Formation (Late Cretaceous, Cenomanian)	Egypt	Would have lived in a tidal flat environment dominated by mangroves	[[File:Paralititan stromeri.jpg	200px]]
Paranthodon	1929	Kirkwood Formation (Early Cretaceous, Berriasian to Valanginian)	South Africa	Although only known from fragmentary specimens, they are enough to tell that it was a stegosaur	[[File:Paranthodon.jpg	200px]]
Pegomastax	2012	Elliot Formation (Early Jurassic, Sinemurian)	South Africa	The morphology of its jaws and beak suggests a diet of tough plants	[[File:Pegomastax africana reconstruction.jpg	200px]]
Plateosauravus	1932	Elliot Formation (Late Triassic, Norian)	South Africa	Known from multiple specimens, including those of juveniles	[[File:Plateosauravus cullingworthi humerus.jpg	200px]]
Pulanesaura	2015	Elliot Formation (Early Jurassic, Hettangian to Sinemurian)	South Africa	A low browser that lacked the extremely long neck of later sauropods	[[File:Pulanesaura eocollum.jpg	200px]]
Rebbachisaurus	1954	Kem Kem Group (Late Cretaceous, Cenomanian)	Morocco	Carried a row of elongated neural spines, which would have supported a ridge or low sail on its back	[[File:Rebbachisaurus BW.jpg	200px]]
Rugops	2004	Echkar Formation (Late Cretaceous, Cenomanian)	Niger	Preserves two rows of holes on the top of its skull, which may have anchored a display structure or an armor-like dermis	[[File:Rugops primus scale diagram.jpg	200px]]
Rukwatitan	2014	Galula Formation (Early Cretaceous to Late Cretaceous, Albian to Cenomanian)	Tanzania	One of the few titanosaurs known from central Africa, filling in a gap in their evolutionary history	[[File:Rukwatitan humerus.jpg	200px]]
Sauroniops	2013	Kem Kem Group (Late Cretaceous, Cenomanian)	Morocco	vauthors = Paterna A, Cau A	title=New giant theropod material from the Kem Kem Compound Assemblage (Morocco) with implications on the diversity of the mid-Cretaceous carcharodontosaurids from North Africa	journal=Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology	year=2022	pages=1–9	doi=10.1080/08912963.2022.2131406	s2cid=252856791 }}	[[File:MPM2594.svg	200px]]
Sefapanosaurus	2015	Elliot Formation (Early Jurassic, Hettangian)	South Africa	Had a distinctive cross-shaped astragalus
Shingopana	2017	Galula Formation (Late Cretaceous, Campanian to Maastrichtian)	Tanzania	Most closely related to South American titanosaurs
Spicomellus	2021	El Mers Group (Middle Jurassic, Bathonian)	Morocco	last1=Maidment	first1=Susannah C. R.	author1-link=Susannah Maidment	last2=Strachan	first2=Sarah J.	last3=Ouarhache	first3=Driss	last4=Scheyer	first4=Torsten M.	last5=Brown	first5=Emily E.	last6=Fernandez	first6=Vincent	last7=Johanson	first7=Zerina	last8=Raven	first8=Thomas J.	last9=Barrett	first9=Paul M.	author9-link=Paul M. Barrett	date=2021-09-23	title=Bizarre dermal armour suggests the first African ankylosaur	journal=Nature Ecology & Evolution	volume=5	issue=12	language=en	pages=1576–1581	doi=10.1038/s41559-021-01553-6	pmid=34556830	bibcode=2021NatEE...5.1576M	s2cid=237616095	issn=2397-334X}} and had very long spikes in its neck and pelvis	[[File:Spicomellus afer.png	200px]]
Spinophorosaurus	2009	Irhazer Shale (Middle Jurassic, Bajocian to Bathonian)	Niger	last1=Remes	first1=K.	last2=Ortega	first2=F.	last3=Fierro	first3=I.	last4=Joger	first4=U.	last5=Kosma	first5=R.	last6=Marín Ferrer	first6=J. M.	last7=Ide	first7=O. A.u	last8=Maga	first8=A.	last9=Farke	first9=A. A.	title=A new basal sauropod dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic of Niger and the early evolution of Sauropoda	journal=PLOS ONE	date=2009	volume=4	issue=9	article-number=e6924	doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0006924	pmid=19756139	pmc=2737122	bibcode=2009PLoSO...4.6924R	doi-access=free }} but these turned out to be misidentified clavicles. A high browser with tall shoulders and an elevated neck	[[File:Spinophorosaurus restoration.jpg	200px]]
Spinosaurus	1915	Aïn el Guettar Formation?, Bahariya Formation, Kem Kem Group (Late Cretaceous, Cenomanian)	Algeria
Egypt
Morocco
Tunisia?	Possessed a myriad of features that have been suggested to be evidence of a semiaquatic lifestyle, including webbed feet and a paddle-like tail. However, it is debated if it was a marine piscivore or a shoreline generalist	[[File:Spinosaurus aegyptiacus by PaleoGeek.png	200px]]
Spinostropheus	2004	Tiourarén Formation (Middle Jurassic to Late Jurassic, Bathonian to Oxfordian)	Niger	10.1111/zoj.12425}}	[[File:Spinostropheus NT.png	200px]]
Suchomimus	1998	Elrhaz Formation (Early Cretaceous, Barremian to Albian)	Niger	Similar to Baryonyx but with a low sail on its back	[[File:Suchomimus tenerensis by PaleoGeek.png	200px]]
Taleta	2025	Ouled Abdoun Basin (Late Cretaceous, Maastrichtian)	Morocco	last1=Longrich	first1=Nicholas R.	last2=Pereda-Suberbiola	first2=Xabier	last3=Bardet	first3=Nathalie	last4=Jalil	first4=Nour-Eddine	date=2025-05-28	title=A new hadrosaurid dinosaur from the late Maastrichtian Phosphates of Morocco provides evidence for an African radiation of lambeosaurines	journal=Gondwana Research	issue=in press	language=en	doi=10.1016/j.gr.2025.05.006}}	[[File:Taleta taleta.png	200px]]
Tameryraptor	2025	Bahariya Formation (Late Cretaceous, Cenomanian)	Egypt	Based on destroyed fossils originally referred to Carcharodontosaurus	[[File:Tameryraptor (life restoration).png	200px]]
Tataouinea	2013	Aïn el Guettar Formation (Early Cretaceous, Albian)	Tunisia	Its bones were extensively pneumatized, supporting the theory that sauropods had bird-like respiratory systems	[[File:Tataouinea skeleton.png	200px]]
Tazoudasaurus	2004	Azilal Formation (Early Jurassic, Toarcian)	Morocco	One of the few Early Jurassic sauropods known from reasonably complete remains	[[File:Tazoudasaurus Scale.svg	200px]]
Tendaguria	2000	Tendaguru Formation (Late Jurassic, Tithonian)	Tanzania	The first definitive turiasaur known from Africa	[[File:Tendaguria.png	200px]]
Thyreosaurus	2024	El Mers Group (Middle Jurassic, Bathonian)	Morocco	last1=Zafaty	first1=O.	last2=Oukassou	first2=M.	last3=Riguetti	first3=F.	last4=((Company))	first4=J.	last5=Bendrioua	first5=S.	last6=Tabuce	first6=R.	last7=Charrière	first7=A.	last8=Pereda-Suberbiola	first8=X.	date=2024	title=A new stegosaurian dinosaur (Ornithischia: Thyreophora) with a remarkable dermal armour from the Middle Jurassic of North Africa	journal=Gondwana Research	volume=131	pages=344–362	doi=10.1016/j.gr.2024.03.009	bibcode=2024GondR.131..344Z }}	[[File:Thyreosaurus atlasicus (alternate).png	200px]]
Tornieria	1911	Tendaguru Formation (Late Jurassic, Kimmeridgian to Tithonian)	Tanzania	Has been assigned to different genera throughout its history	[[File:1911 - Tornieria.png	200px]]
Veterupristisaurus	2011	Tendaguru Formation (Late Jurassic, Kimmeridgian to Tithonian)	Tanzania	Known from a few vertebrae somewhat similar to those of Acrocanthosaurus	[[File:Veterupristisaurus milneri life restoration.jpg	200px]]
Vulcanodon	1972	Forest Sandstone (Early Jurassic, Sinemurian to Pliensbachian)	Zimbabwe	Theropod teeth were found associated with the holotype	[[File:Vulcanodon.png	200px]]
Wamweracaudia	2019	Tendaguru Formation (Late Jurassic, Tithonian)	Tanzania	The first definitive mamenchisaurid known from outside Asia

Invalid and potentially valid genera

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Aetonyx palustris: Considered a potential junior synonym of Massospondylus, but two more recent studies cast doubt on this.
Aristosaurus erectus: Believed to be a synonym of Massospondylus, though this genus was found to be indeterminate by later research.
Dromicosaurus gracilis: Usually considered synonymous with Massospondylus although it was later suggested to be an indeterminate sauropodomorph.
Fabrosaurus australis: Sometimes considered to be part of a family of small ornithischians called fabrosaurids. It may potentially be a synonym of Lesothosaurus.
Gigantoscelus molengraafi: Probably a synonym of Euskelosaurus, but this cannot be confirmed.
Gyposaurus: The African species, G. capensis, may be a juvenile Massospondylus. A Chinese species has also been named, but it may not belong to this genus.
Hortalotarsus skirtopodus: A possible synonym of Massospondylus.
"Likhoelesaurus": Suggested to be a giant, early carnosaur but might actually be a pseudosuchian.
Megapnosaurus: The African species, M. rhodesiensis, might belong to the genus Coelophysis. Another referred species, M. kayentakatae, probably needs its own genus name, as the current one, "Syntarsus", is preoccupied by an insect.
Nyasasaurus parringtoni: Described in 2013 as the oldest known dinosaur, dating back to the Anisian, but both this date and its classification have been questioned.
Sigilmassasaurus brevicollis: A spinosaurid contemporary with Spinosaurus. Its status as a distinct genus and/or species is uncertain.
Torvosaurus: Teeth originally named as Megalosaurus ingens have been reassigned to this genus, but not as a distinct species.

Timeline

This is a timeline of selected dinosaurs from the list above. Time is measured in mya along the x-axis.

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