Draconyx

Field photograph to come

DV-0477Lourinhã Fm., Portugal

Draconyx

DV-0477

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

1 find

145 million years ago

Map: C. R. Scotese, PALEOMAP

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