Ornithopsis
Field photograph to come
Ornithopsis
DV-0026
- Lived
- 145 to 120 million years ago, Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Sauropods
- Found in
- United Kingdom
- Named by
- Seeley 1870
Field notes
About Ornithopsis
Ornithopsis was a plant-eating sauropod that lived in the Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous, 145 to 120 million years ago.
The Paleobiology Database lists 5 finds of Ornithopsis, from United Kingdom. Its fossils come from rocks including the Wessex Formation and the Portland Stone Formation. It was named by Seeley in 1870.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
130 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Titanosauriformes.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: H. G. Seeley. 1870. On Ornithopsis, a gigantic animal of the pterodactyle kind from the Wealden. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, series 4 5:279-283