Notohypsilophodon Notohypsilophodon
"southern"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Notohypsilophodon 1.3 m (4.3 ft) long
2 people holding hands
- Length
- 1.3 m (4.3 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (99.6–89.8 Mya)
- Place
- South America · Antarctica · Argentina
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria
Notohypsilophodon (meaning “southern Hypsilophodon”) is a genus of ornithopod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Argentina. It was described as the only “hypsilophodont” known from South America, although this assessment is not universally supported, and Gasparinisaura is now believed to have been a basal euornithopod as well.
What we know
- Named by Martínez, 1998.
- Body length estimated at about 1.3 m.
- Fossils found in South America and Antarctica.