Outline: a typical early ornithischian
Echinodon
eh-KY-noh-don
"spiny tooth"
- Lived
- 143 to 137 million years ago, Early Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Early ornithischians, Heterodontosauridae
- Found in
- United Kingdom and France
- Named by
- Owen 1861
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
140 million years ago
Field notes
About Echinodon
What it was like
Echinodon was a tiny plant eater from the heterodontosaurid family. It is known from jaws and teeth. Like its relatives, it had teeth of different shapes, including small fangs near the front of its jaws.
Its world
It lived in the Early Cretaceous in what is now England, and it may also have lived in France. Its fossils come from the Lulworth Formation, a land of lagoons and dry scrub.
How it was found
Owen named Echinodon in 1861. It was one of the first small bird-hipped dinosaurs to be named.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Heterodontosauridae
Sources: WikidataNamed in: R. Owen. 1861. Monograph on the fossil Reptilia of the Wealden and Purbeck formations. Part V. Lacertilia (Nuthetes, etc.). [Purbeck]. The Palaeontological Society, London 1858:31-39