Inosaurus

Inosaurus (meaning "In Tedreft lizard") is a dubious genus of extinct theropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous age "Continental intercalaire" and Echkar Formation of Niger and possibly from the Late Cretaceous age Baharija Formation of Egypt. The type, and only species, is I. tedreftensis.

== Discovery and naming == The holotype, eighteen vertebrae and the top end of a left tibia, was collected by Albert-Félix de Lapparent in a stratum of the Early Cretaceous "Continental intercalaire" in In Tedreft, Niger during 1953, and he described the remains later in the same year. He concluded a further five vertebrae from the Tegama Group in In Abangarit, Niger belonged to the genus in 1959, and he named and described Inosaurus tedreftensis in 1960.