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Hypsilophodontidae

Daurosaurus olovus DAU-ro-SOR-us

Generic ornithopod body-plan outline
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Daurosaurus 2 m (6.6 ft) long
as long as 2 people standing fingertip to fingertip
generic ornithopod body plan, scaled to length — not a silhouette of Daurosaurus
Length
2 m (6.6 ft)
Period
Middle Jurassic (168.2–165.3 Mya)
Food
Herbivore
Clade
Hypsilophodontidae Dinosauria Ornithischia Cerapoda Ornithopoda Small fast bipedal plant-eaters.

Daurosaurus is a hypsilophodontidae known from the Jurassic period, of uncertain origin. Most of what’s published comes from a small number of specimens, and the fuller picture of how it lived is still being worked out.

What we know

  • Originally named by Alifanov and Saveliev 2014.