What is Ouranosaurus?
{{taxobox | name = ''Ouranosaurus'' | status = fossil | fossil_range = [[Lower Cretaceous]] | image = Ouranosaurus.jpg | image_width = 200px | regnum = [[Animalia]] | phylum = [[Chordata]] | classis = [[Sauropsida]] | superordo = [[Dinosauria]] | ordo = [[Ornithischia]] | subordo = [[Ornithopoda]] | infraordo = [[Iguanodontia]] | familia = [[Iguanodontidae]] | genus = '''''Ouranosaurus''''' | binomial = ''Ouranosaurus nigeriensis'' | binomial_authority = Taquet, [[1976]] }} '''''Ouranosaurus''''' was a sail-backed, plant-eating, [[iguanodon]]tid [[dinosaur]] from the [[Lower Cretaceous]] period. It was about 24 feet (7 m) long and may have weighed about 4 tons. Two almost complete ''Ouranosaurus'' fossils were found in the southern [[Sahara Desert]], in northeast [[Niger]], in 1966. ''[[Spinosaurus]]'', a large, sail-backed meat-eater, was one of its contemporaries in the hot, Cretaceous environment of [[north Africa]]. ''Ouranosaurus'' was named by the [[France|French]] [[Palaeontology|paleontologist]] Phillippe Taquet in 1976. {{biology-stub}} [[Category:Dinosaurs of Africa]] [[Category:Cretaceous dinosaurs]] [[Category:Ornithopods]]