Ornithopsis
"bird-likeness"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Ornithopsis 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (145–100 Mya)
- Place
- Germany · United Kingdom
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Ornithopsis (meaning “bird-likeness”) is a genus of sauropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of England and possibly Germany. The type species, which is the only species seen as valid today, is O. hulkei, which is only known from fragmentary remains.
What we know
- Named by Seeley, 1870.
- Fossils found in Germany and United Kingdom.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Ornithopsis — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.