Outline: a typical early ornithischian
Manidens
"hand tooth"
- Lived
- 184 to 171 million years ago, Early Jurassic to Middle Jurassic
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Early ornithischians, Heterodontosauridae
- Found in
- Argentina
- Named by
- Pol et al. 2011
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
180 million years ago
Field notes
About Manidens
What it was like
Manidens was a small plant eater from the heterodontosaurid family. It had teeth of different shapes, including a fang near the front. Its feet suggest it may have been able to grasp branches.
Its world
It lived in the Jurassic in what is now Argentina. Its bones come from the Cañadón Asfalto Formation, where it shared the land with the sauropod Patagosaurus and the predators Piatnitzkysaurus and Condorraptor.
How it was found
Pol and colleagues named it in 2011. Its name refers to its hand-shaped cheek teeth.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Heterodontosauridae
Sources: WikidataNamed in: D. Pol, O. W. M. Rauhut, and M. Becerra. 2011. A Middle Jurassic heterodontosaurid dinosaur from Patagonia and the evolution of heterodontosaurids. Naturwissenschaften 98:369-379