Fabrosauridae

As Fabrosauridae a family of ornithopods has been designated, in the mainly Fabrosaurus and Lesothosaurus were asked. The taxon was erected in 1964 by Leonard Ginsburg.

The Fabrosauridae regarded as the earliest representatives of the ornithopods. From these, all other forms should have developed. Already in the 1980s, the paleontologist Jacques Gauthier and Paul Sereno was cladistic analyzes recognized that it is not a monophyletic taxon at the Fabrosauriden, and the Lesothosaurus was not Ornithopod, but as most original bird Beck dinosaur ( Ornithischia ) is to be considered. Other to the family counted taxa were found in various higher Ornithischiataxa. Fabrosaurus applies dubium as a noun.