Outline: a typical ceratopsian
Stenopelix
"narrow pelvis"
Type species Stenopelix valdensis
- Lived
- 139 to 137 million years ago, Early Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Length
- about 1.5 m (5 ft)
- Group
- Ceratopsians, Chaoyangsauridae
- Found in
- Germany
- Named by
- Meyer 1857
Size comparison
To scale
Scale in metersOutline: typical ceratopsian shape
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
140 million years ago
Field notes
About Stenopelix
What it was like
Stenopelix was a small, two-legged plant eater about 1.5 meters (5 feet) long. It is known from a partial skeleton without a skull, preserved as an impression in rock. Its hips suggest it was an early horned dinosaur, but some scientists think it was a bone-headed dinosaur instead.
Its world
It lived in the Early Cretaceous in what is now Germany. Its fossil comes from the Bückeberg Formation, a land of lagoons and swamps.
How it was found
Meyer named Stenopelix in 1857. The type species is Stenopelix valdensis.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Chaoyangsauridae
Sources: WikidataNamed in: H. v. Meyer. 1857. Beiträge zur näheren Kenntniss fossiler Reptilien [Contributions to the detailed knowledge of fossil reptiles]. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geognosie, Geologie und Petrefakten-Kunde 1857:532-543