Pronunciation: AD-ruh-TIK-lit
Meaning: Mountain lizard
Author/s: Maidment et al. (2019)
Synonyms: None known
First Discovery: Boulahfa, Morocco
Discovery Chart Position: #1009
Adratiklit boulahfa
Adratiklit is the
first eurypodan thyreophoran (armoured) dinosaur known from north Africa and the oldest definitive stegosaur from anywhere in the world, although Isaberrysaura may yet turn out to be stegosaurian, and that is older still.
(Mountain lizard)Etymology
Adratiklit is derived from the Berber words "Adras" (mountain) and "tiklit" (lizard).
The species epithet, boulahfa, refers to the location where the specimen was found.
ZooBank registry: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:D1BD031A-C902-40AC-88F6-A8ABD0788420.
Discovery
The remains of Adratiklit were discovered in the El Mers II Formation (El Mers Group) at Boulahfa, south of Boulemane, Fès-Meknes, Middle Atlas Mountains of Morocco.The holotype (NHMUK PV R37366) is a back vertebra. Referred material includes NHMUK PV R37367 and R37368 (three neck vertebrae), NHMUK PV R37365 (a back vertebra) and NHMUK PV R37007 (a left humerus). All specimens were aquired by the National History Museum, London, UK, from Moussa Direct, Cambridge, UK.
