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Hypsilophodontidae

Gideonmantellia

Generic ornithopod body-plan outline
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Gideonmantellia 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
generic ornithopod body plan, scaled to length — not a silhouette of Gideonmantellia
Length
5 m (16.4 ft)
Period
Early Cretaceous (145–100 Mya)
Place
Spain
Food
Herbivore
Clade
Hypsilophodontidae Dinosauria Ornithischia Cerapoda Ornithopoda Small fast bipedal plant-eaters.

Gideonmantellia is an extinct genus of basal ornithopod dinosaur known from the Early Cretaceous (Barremian stage) Camarillas Formation of Galve, Province of Teruel, Spain. It contains a single species, Gideonmantellia amosanjuanae.

What we know

  • Named by Ruiz-Omeñaca et al., 2012.
  • Fossils found in Spain.

What we guess

The reconstruction notes for Gideonmantellia — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.