Hippodraco
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Hippodraco 4.5 m (14.8 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 4.5 m (14.8 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (139–134.6 Mya)
- Place
- United States · Utah, USA
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Hippodraco is a genus of iguanodontian ornithopod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Cedar Mountain Formation of Utah, United States. The genus contains a single species, H. scutodens, known from a partial skeleton belonging to an immature individual.
What we know
- Named by McDonald et al., 2010.
- Body length estimated at about 4.5 m.
- Fossils found in United States and Utah, USA.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Hippodraco — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.