Valdosaurus
Field photograph to come
Valdosaurus
DV-0242
- Lived
- 137 to 121 million years ago, Early Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Length
- about 3 m (10 ft)
- Group
- Ornithopods, Dryosauridae
- Found in
- United Kingdom
- Named by
- Galton 1977
Field notes
About Valdosaurus
Valdosaurus was a plant-eating ornithopod that lived in the Early Cretaceous, 137 to 121 million years ago. It belongs to the family Dryosauridae.
The Paleobiology Database lists 7 finds of Valdosaurus, from United Kingdom. Its fossils come from rocks including the Wessex Formation and the Tunbridge Wells Sand Formation. It was named by Galton in 1977.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
130 million years ago
To scale
How big was Valdosaurus?
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Dryosauridae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: P. M. Galton. 1977. The Upper Jurassic dinosaur Dryosaurus and a Laurasia-Gondwana connection in the Upper Jurassic. Nature 268(5617):230-232