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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