Hesperonyx martinhotomasorum
"western claw"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Hesperonyx 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.
Hesperonyx (meaning “western claw”) is an extinct genus of dryomorphan ornithopod dinosaur from the Late Jurassic Lourinhã Formation of Portugal. The genus contains a single species, Hesperonyx martinhotomasorum, known from bones of the fore- and hindlimbs.
What we know
- Named by Rotatori et al., 2024.
- Fossils found in Portugal.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Hesperonyx — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.