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bird-hipped dinosaur · Doubtful name
Claorhynchus
Claorhynchus trihedrus
Claorhynchus ate plants and moved in a way the fossils do not settle. It lived in the Late Cretaceous. Bones have been found in the United States.
- When
- Late Cretaceous
- Named in
- 1892 · Cope, E. D.
- Hip height
- Not established
- Length
- Not established
- Weight
- Not established
- Found in
- the United States
- Food and walking
- Herbivore · Not recorded
- Kind
- bird-hipped dinosaur · Ornithischian
- Family branch
- Ornithischia
The story in short
The genus Claorhynchus dates to 1892, the year E. D. Cope described it.
It lived in the Late Cretaceous, within an age that is only broadly constrained. Finds come from the United States. It was a herbivore. A habitual gait is not settled.
The fossils of Claorhynchus 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
Alocodon
Alocodon kuehnei
Middle Jurassic · Late Jurassic (Callovian · Oxfordian) · roughly 165.3 to 154.8 million years ago
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