Hippodraco
Name:
Hippodraco
(Horse Dragon).
Phonetic: Hip-po-dray-co.
Named By: A. T. McDonald, J. I. Kirkland,
D. D. DeBlieux, S. K. Madsen, J. Cavin, A. R. C.
Milner & L. Panzarin - 2010.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia, Dinosauria,
Ornithischia, Ornithopoda, Styracosterna.
Species: H. scutodens
(type).
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Roughly about 4.5 meters long.
Known locations: USA, Utah - Cedar Mountain
Formation [Yellow Cat Member].
Time period: Barremian of the Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Skull and partial post
cranial remains including parts of the upper fore arm, lower leg,
shoulder, pelvis and some vertebrae.
Hippodraco is a genus of medium sized ornithopod dinosaur that lived in North America during the early Cretaceous. Though still a fairly large dinosaur when compared to a person, Hippodraco paled in comparison to the impressively large Iguanacolossus, which is known from the same member of the Cedar Mountain Formation that Hippodraco was found in, strongly suggesting that the two genera lived in same approximate ecosystems at the same time. Hippodraco would have fed upon low to medium height plants while keeping a lookout for predatory theropod dinosaurs.
Further reading
- New basal iguanodonts from the Cedar Mountain Formation of Utah and
the evolution of thumb-spiked dinosaurs. - PLoS One
5(11):e14075:1-35. - A. T. McDonald, J. I.
Kirkland, D. D. DeBlieux, S. K. Madsen, J. Cavin,
A. R. C. Milner & L. Panzarin - 2010.
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