Dryosaurus

Dryosaurus
Temporal range: Upper Jurassic
155–145 mya
Juvenile D. altus, Beneski Museum of Natural History
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Order: †Ornithischia
Suborder: †Ornithopoda
Clade: †Iguanodontia
Genus: †Dryosaurus
Marsh, 1894
Type species
Dryosaurus altus
(Marsh, 1878 [originally Laosaurus altus])
Other species
  • D. elderae Carpenter & Galton, 2018

Dryosaurus was a small plant-eating ornithopod dinosaur that lived in forests of western North America around 150 million years ago.

Its family, the Dryosauridae, were precursors (ancestors) of the Iguanodons, and lived from the Middle Jurassic to the Lower Cretaceous.

References

  1. ↑ Galton, P.M. & Jensen, J.A., 1973, "Small bones of the hypsilophodontid dinosaur Dryoraurus altus from the Upper Jurassic of Colorado", Great Basin Nature, 33: 129-132
  2. ↑ Kenneth Carpenter; Peter M. Galton (2018). "A photo documentation of bipedal ornithischian dinosaurs from the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation, USA". Geology of the Intermountain West. 5: 167–207.