Ouranosaurus

Ouranosaurus is one of the dinosaurs found in the Sahara Desert. The name's meaning, brave (monitor)lizard. its an unusual genus of herbivorous iguanodont dinosaur that lived during the early Cretaceous ( late Aptian stage). Ouranosaurus measures to up to seven to eight meters long.Two rather complete fossils were found in the Echkar\El Rhaz formation. The animal was named in 1976 by French paleontologist Philippe Taquet. The type species being Ouranosaurus Nigerians.