Fabrosaurids, or "Fabre's lizards" were among the earliest dinosaurs known. They were small, the largest as tall as a man, and light-boned. Fabrosaurus was only 3 feet long and had hollow limb bones with small arms and long legs. Each hand had five fingers and each foot had four toes. In its relatively small mouth were two rows of ridged teeth. With these, it could grind small roots and shoots.

Fabrosaurus had a broad jaw with holes for new teeth to replace old ones. Fabrosaurus was closely related to Lesothosaurus and Scutellosaurus. It appeared late in the Triassic period, more than 200 million years ago.

Dinosaurs of the fabrosaurid family lived for at least 70 million years and were like the grazing animals of today. They would have been the gazelles and deer of the dinosaur world. From this line of anicient animal came Heterodontosaurus, Hypsilophodon, Camptosaurus, Iguanodon, Hadrosaurus, Bactrosaurus, and many other duckbills, boneheads, and other groups.  

Location: South Africa

Diet: Roots and shoots

Size: Length- 3 feet 4 inches

      Weight- 40 pound

Time: Triassic