Genus: Elaphrosaurus JANENSCH, 1920 (nomen dubium)
Etymology: Greek, elaphros, "nimble, light, fleet" and Greek, sauros, "lizard": Fleet lizard.
= Elephrosaurus PAUL, 1988 (sic)

Species: bambergi JANENSCH, 1920 (nomen dubium)
Etymology: In honor of industrialist Paul Bamberg who funded the expedition that found the dinosaur.

Holotype: Humboldt Museum, MB R 4960

Locality: German Tendaguru Expedition quarry dd, ~2500 m north of Tendaguru Hill, Lindi, North of Kindope, Tendaguru, Mtwara, Tanzania, East Africa.

Horizon: Middle reptile level, Tendaguru Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Late Kimmeridgian Stage, Middle Malm Epoch, Late Jurassic.

Material: 16 presacral, six, sacral, and 18 caudal vertebrae, 1 mid-caudal chevron, left humerus, both ilia, left pubis, both ischia, left femur, tibia, fibula, and astragalocalcaneum, left metatarsals II, III, and proximal end of IV, and three pedal phalanges.

 Referred material:

JANENSCH, 1929

HMN R dd 4960.35, 4960.36: A left and right scapulocoracoid, and right metacarpal II and left metacarpal IV. (Note: Probably belongs to the type specimen, RAUHUT, & CRANNO, 2016)

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Species: ? iguidiensis de LAPPARENT, 1960 (nomen dubium)
Etymology:

Holotype:

Locality: S d’Alrar, Niger.

Horizon: Elrhaz or Echkar Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Late Aptian Stage, Middle Gallic Epoch, Early Cretaceous Epoch, Early Cretaceous.

Material: Tooth.

Referred material:

Locality: Ebrechiko, Niger.

Horizon:

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Early Cretaceous.

Material:

Number: Not given: Teeth.

 

Locality: Marsa Matruh, Egypt.

Horizon: Baharija Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Cenomanian Stage, Uppermiddle Gallic Epoch, Lowermost Gulf Epoch, Middle Cretaceous.

Material:

Number: Not given:

 

Locality: In Abangharit, Tamesna, Niger.

Horizon:

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Early Cretaceous.

Material:

Number: Not given: Vertebrae.

 


Locality: Ifayen Ignere, Niger.

Horizon:

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Early Cretaceous.

Material:

Number: Not given: Vertebrae.

 


Locality: Timimoun, Niger.

Horizon:

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Early Cretaceous.

Material:

Number: Not given: Vertebrae.

 

Locality: El Rhaz, Niger.

Horizon:

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Early Cretaceous.

Material:

Number: Not given: Caudal vertebrae, and distal end of a femur.

 


JACOBS, WINKLER & GOMNI, 1996/LAPPARENT, 1960, MONBARON, 1978

Locality: Kasr-es-Souk, Morocco.

Horizon: Tegana Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Albian Stage, Middle Gallic Subepoch, Upper Early Cretaceous Epoch, Early Cretaceous.

Material:

Number: Not given:

 


TAQUET, 1976

Locality: Gadoufaoua, Niger.

Horizon:

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Aptian, Middle Gallic Subepoch, Early Cretaceous Epoch, Early Cretaceous.

Material:

Number: Not given: Small teeth, fragmentary skull, vertebrae, metatarsals phalanges and claws.

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Species: philtippettensis PICKERING, 1995
Etymology: In honor of Phil Tippett who, like Obie and Harryhausen, keeps alive all dinosaurologists' sense of wonder.
= Elaphrosaurus sp GALTON, 1982

Holotype: USNM 5737

Locality: Marsh-Felch’s YPM Quarry 1, Garden Park, Sec. 28, T17S, R70W, Canon City, Fremont County, Colorado.

Horizon: Salt Wash Member, Morrison Formation.

Biostratigraphy: Zone 2.

Age: Comobluffian age, Kimmeridgian Stage, uppermost Malm Epoch, Late Jurassic.

Material: Pubes lacking parts of the proximal end.

Referred material:

USNM 8415: Right humerus.