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FIGURE 1. The complete skeleton of Ouranosaurus nigeriensis a herbivorous bipedal dinosaur (from Taquet, 1998).

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FIGURE 2. Reconstruction of O. nigeriensis; length is 7 m (from Taquet, 1998).

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FIGURE 3. Reconstruction of an Early Cretacous scene, with large dorsal-crested O. nigeriensis in foreground (from Halstead-Tarlo, in Taquet, 1998).

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FIGURE 4. Phillipe Taquet-paleontologist in action.

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FIGURE 5. Georges Cuvier's 1808 sketch of a vertebra from the "Gavial of Honfleur", which was really a vertebrae from a carnivorous dinosaur (from Taquet, 1998).

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FIGURE 6. Jacques Amand Eudes-Deslongchamps' 1837 sketches of bones from Poekilopleuron bucklandii, a carnivorous dinosaur which was discovered from quarries near Caen, but which was destroyed in WW II (from Taquet, 1998).

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