New fossil discovery in Morocco sets record for oldest plant-eating dinosaur fossil The ... confirmation of existing hypotheses of the early origin of cerapodans and part of the jigsaw towards ...

A new study suggests that the earliest dinosaurs originated in the supercontinent Gondwana, which comprised southern Morocco ... eating both plants and meat. Dinosaurs began to dominate after ...

Cerapodans were a group of small, plant-eating dinosaurs that hopped on ... the El Mers III Formation of the Middle Atlas Mountains, Morocco. The team wrote in the study paper that this ...