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Lesothosaurus
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Illustration of Lesothosaurus, a small, lightly built early Jurassic herbivorous dinosaur, shown in profile with a scale bar above and a chicken silhouette behind for size comparison. Text notes its length as 3.3 feet and its lightly built frame due to some hollow bones.
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Lesothosaurus

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    dinosaur
    / Ornithischia

    Basal Jurassic forms include Lesothosaurus and other fabrosaurids, small animals that are the best-known basal ornithischians. They have the ornithischian features mentioned above but few specializations beyond these. Otherwise, the two main ornithischian lineages are the Cerapoda and Thyreophora.

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    Basal Jurassic forms include Lesothosaurus and other fabrosaurids, small animals that are the best-known basal ornithischians. They have the ornithischian features mentioned above but few specializations beyond these. Otherwise, the two main ornithischian lineages are the Cerapoda and Thyreophora.

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