Draconyx
Field photograph to come
Draconyx
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- Lived
- 149 to 145 million years ago, Late Jurassic
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ornithopods
- Found in
- Portugal
- Named by
- Mateus and Antunes 2001
Field notes
About Draconyx
Draconyx was a plant-eating ornithopod that lived in the Late Jurassic, 149 to 145 million years ago.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Draconyx, from Portugal. Its fossils come from the Lourinhã Formation. It was named by Mateus and Antunes in 2001.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
145 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Dryomorpha.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: O. Mateus and M. T. Antunes. 2001. Draconyx loureiroi, a new camptosauridae (Dinosauria, Ornithopoda) from the Late Jurassic of Lourinhã, Portugal. Annales de Paléontologie 87(1):61-73