Draconyx Draconyx
"dragon claw"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Draconyx 5 m (16.4 ft) long
3 people holding hands
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Late Jurassic (163–145 Mya)
- Place
- Portugal
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria
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.