Dryosaurus
| Dryosaurus Temporal range: Upper Jurassic 155–145 mya
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| Juvenile D. altus, Beneski Museum of Natural History | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Order: | †Ornithischia |
| Suborder: | †Ornithopoda |
| Clade: | †Iguanodontia |
| Genus: | †Dryosaurus Marsh, 1894 |
| Type species | |
| Dryosaurus altus (Marsh, 1878 [originally Laosaurus altus])
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| Other species | |
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Dryosaurus was a small plant-eating ornithopod dinosaur that lived in forests of western North America around 150 million years ago.[1][2]
Its family, the Dryosauridae, were precursors (ancestors) of the Iguanodons, and lived from the Middle Jurassic to the Lower Cretaceous.
References
[change | change source]- ↑ Galton, P.M. & Jensen, J.A., 1973, "Small bones of the hypsilophodontid dinosaur Dryoraurus altus from the Upper Jurassic of Colorado", Great Basin Nature, 33: 129-132
- ↑ Kenneth Carpenter; Peter M. Galton (2018). "A photo documentation of bipedal ornithischian dinosaurs from the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation, USA". Geology of the Intermountain West. 5: 167–207.
