Outline: a typical ornithopod
Hypselospinus
"high spine"
Type species Hypselospinus fittoni
- Lived
- 137 to 133 million years ago, Early Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ornithopods
- Found in
- United Kingdom
- Named by
- Norman 2010
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
135 million years ago
Field notes
About Hypselospinus
What it was like
Hypselospinus was a large plant eater related to Iguanodon, with tall spines on its backbones and a long, low skull. It had a thumb spike, a beak and grinding teeth.
Its world
It lived in the Early Cretaceous in what is now southern England. Its bones come from the Wadhurst Clay, where it shared the land with the armored Hylaeosaurus and the plant eater Barilium.
How it was found
Its bones were first described as a species of Iguanodon. Norman gave it its own genus in 2010. Seven finds are known.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Neoiguanodontia
Sources: WikidataNamed in: D. B. Norman. 2010. A taxonomy of iguanodontians (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) from the lower Wealden Group (Cretaceous: Valanginian) of southern England. Zootaxa 2489:47-66