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bird-hipped dinosaur · Doubtful name
Alocodon
Say it like this: “a-LOK-o-don”
Alocodon kuehnei
Alocodon ate plants and walked on two legs. It lived in the Middle Jurassic · Late Jurassic. Bones have been found in Portugal.
- When
- Middle Jurassic · Late Jurassic (Callovian · Oxfordian) · roughly 165.3 to 154.8 million years ago
- Named in
- 1973 · Thulborn, R. A.
- Hip height
- Not established
- Length
- Not established
- Weight
- Not established
- Found in
- Portugal · Cabaços
- Food and walking
- Herbivore · Two legs
- Kind
- bird-hipped dinosaur · Ornithischian
- Family branch
- Ornithischia
The story in short
Alocodon was formally named in 1973 by R. A. Thulborn. The name means “furrow tooth.”
It lived in the Middle Jurassic · Late Jurassic (Callovian · Oxfordian), roughly 165.3 to 154.8 million years ago. Finds come from Portugal, including the Cabaços Formation. It was a herbivore and walked on two legs.
The fossils of Alocodon are too incomplete for a responsible length, hip height, or weight, so those fields are left blank on purpose.
On the family tree it sits in Ornithischia, among the bird-hipped dinosaurs.
Close relatives
Amtosaurus
Amtosaurus magnus
Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian · Turonian) · roughly 100.5 to 89.8 million years ago
Archaeocursor
Archaeocursor asiaticus
Early Jurassic (Sinemurian · Pliensbachian) · roughly 199.5 to 184.2 million years ago
Brachypodosaurus
Brachypodosaurus gravis
Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) · roughly 72.2 to 66 million years ago