Outline: a typical ornithopod
Notohypsilophodon
"southern Hypsilophodon"
- Lived
- 101 to 90 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ornithopods
- Found in
- Argentina
- Named by
- Martínez 1998
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
95 million years ago
Field notes
About Notohypsilophodon
What it was like
Notohypsilophodon was a small, two-legged plant eater known from a partial skeleton. It was named as a southern relative of Hypsilophodon, but its exact place among the ornithopods is debated.
Its world
It lived in the Late Cretaceous in what is now Argentina. Its bones come from the Bajo Barreal Formation, where it shared the land with the titanosaurs Epachthosaurus and Sarmientosaurus.
How it was found
Martínez named it in 1998 from one find.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Elasmaria
Sources: WikidataNamed in: R. D. Martínez. 1998. Notohypsilophodon comodorensis gen. et sp. nov. un Hypsilophodontidae (Ornitischia: Ornithopoda) del Cretácico Superior de Chubut, Patagonia central, Argentina [Notohypsilophodon comodorensis gen. et sp. nov., a Hypsilophodontidae (Ornithischia: Ornithopoda) from the Upper Cretaceous of Chubut, central Patagonia, Argentina]. Acta Geologica Leopoldensia 21(46/47):119-135