Outline: a typical ornithopod
Hippodraco
"horse dragon"
- Lived
- 137 to 133 million years ago, Early Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ornithopods
- Found in
- United States
- Named by
- McDonald et al. 2010
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
135 million years ago
Field notes
About Hippodraco
What it was like
Hippodraco was a plant eater related to Iguanodon, known from a partial skull and skeleton of a young animal. It had a long, low skull, which reminded the scientists who named it of a horse's head.
Its world
It lived in the Early Cretaceous in what is now Utah, in the United States. Its bones come from the Cedar Mountain Formation, where it shared the land with the armored Gastonia and the giant raptor Utahraptor.
How it was found
McDonald and colleagues named Hippodraco in 2010, from a single find.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Styracosterna
Sources: WikidataNamed in: A. T. McDonald, J. I. Kirkland, and D. D. DeBlieux, S. K. Madsen, J. Cavin, A. R. C. Milner, L. Panzarin. 2010. New basal iguanodonts from the Cedar Mountain Formation of Utah and the evolution of thumb-spiked dinosaurs. PLoS One 5(11):e14075:1-35