Draconyx
"dragon claw"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Draconyx 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Late Jurassic (163–145 Mya)
- Place
- Portugal
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Draconyx (meaning “dragon claw”) is a genus of ornithopod dinosaur from the Late Jurassic of what is now Portugal. It was found in the Lourinhã Formation in 1991, and described by Octávio Mateus and Miguel Telles Antunes in 2001.
What we know
- Named by Mateus & Antunes, 2001.
- Fossils found in Portugal.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Draconyx — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.