Hippodraco

DV-0737

Lived: 137 to 133 million years ago, Early Cretaceous
Diet: Herbivore
Group: Ornithopods
Found in: United States
Named by: McDonald et al. 2010

Field notes

About Hippodraco

Hippodraco was a plant-eating ornithopod that lived in the Early Cretaceous, 137 to 133 million years ago.

The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Hippodraco, from Utah. Its fossils come from the Cedar Mountain Formation. It was named by McDonald et al. in 2010.

The evidence

Where its fossils were found

Today

1 find

135 million years ago

Map: C. R. Scotese, PALEOMAP

Lived alongside

Found in the same rock formations.

Close relatives

Other members of Styracosterna.

Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: A. T. McDonald, J. I. Kirkland, and D. D. DeBlieux, S. K. Madsen, J. Cavin, A. R. C. Milner, L. Panzarin. 2010. New basal iguanodonts from the Cedar Mountain Formation of Utah and the evolution of thumb-spiked dinosaurs. PLoS One 5(11):e14075:1-35