Hypsilophodon
"High Ridge Tooth"

Length
Time, Million Years Ago
Place
1.5 - 2.3m
120 - 122
Isle of Wight

First Named
Discoverer
Family
1869
Huxley
Ornithopoda

This dinosaur was one of several which the BBC's Dinosaur Island programme investigated.

Type Species Information
After which the Genus is named

Hypsilophodon foxii
Remains: 13 skeletons (3 nearly complete), skeletal elements

Other Species

Name
Discoverer
Named
H. wielandi
Galton & Jensen
1979

Remains: Skeletal remains

© 2002 Gavin Rymill

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