Outline: a typical ornithopod
Convolosaurus
"flocking lizard"
- Lived
- 120 to 113 million years ago, Early Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ornithopods, Tenontosauridae
- Found in
- United States
- Named by
- Andrzejewski et al. 2019
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
115 million years ago
Field notes
About Convolosaurus
What it was like
Convolosaurus was a small plant eater that walked on two legs. It is known from bones of several young animals found together, which gave it its name.
Its world
It lived in the Early Cretaceous, in what is now Texas. It comes from the Twin Mountains Formation, where it shared the land with the big predator Acrocanthosaurus, the tall sauropod Sauroposeidon and the plant eater Tenontosaurus.
How it was found
Andrzejewski and colleagues named Convolosaurus in 2019.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Tenontosauridae
Sources: WikidataNamed in: K. A. Andrzejewski, D. A. Winkler, and L. L. Jacobs. 2019. A new basal ornithopod (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) from the Early Cretaceous of Texas. PLoS One 14(3):e0207935:1-44