Owenodon

DV-0696 · type species Owenodon hoggii

Lived: 149 to 137 million years ago, Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous
Diet: Herbivore
Group: Ornithopods
Found in: United Kingdom and Romania
Named by: Galton 2009

Field notes

About Owenodon

Owenodon was a plant-eating ornithopod that lived in the Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous, 149 to 137 million years ago.

The Paleobiology Database lists 3 finds of Owenodon, from United Kingdom and Romania. Its fossils come from rocks including the Lower Bauxite Formation and the Lulworth Formation. It was named by Galton in 2009.

The evidence

Where its fossils were found

Today

3 finds

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: P. M. Galton. 2009. Notes on Neocomian (Lower Cretaceous) ornithopod dinosaurs from England - Hypsilophodon, Valdosaurus, "Camptosaurus", "Iguanodon" - and referred specimens from Romania and elsewhere. Revue de Paléobiologie, Genève 28(1):211-273