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beaked plant-eater
Cumnoria
Say it like this: “kum-NOH-ree-uh”
Cumnoria prestwichii
Cumnoria ate plants and walked on two or four legs. It lived in the Late Jurassic. Bones have been found in the United Kingdom.
- When
- Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian) · roughly 154.8 to 149.2 million years ago
- Named in
- 1888 · Seeley, H. G.
- Hip height
- 1.2 m · 4 ft
- Length
- 3.5 m · 11 ft
- Weight
- 250 kg · 551 lb
- Found in
- the United Kingdom · Kimmeridge Clay
- Food and walking
- Herbivore · Two or four legs
- Kind
- beaked plant-eater · Ornithopod
- Family branch
- Dryomorpha
The story in short
In 1888, H. G. Seeley published the name Cumnoria. The name honors a person tied to the fossil or its study.
Fossils referred to Cumnoria date to the Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian), roughly 154.8 to 149.2 million years ago. Finds come from the United Kingdom, including the Kimmeridge Clay Formation. It was a herbivore and could move on two or four legs.
Published estimates put Cumnoria at a length near 3.5 m, hips about 1.2 m high, and a body mass around 250 kg.
On the family tree it sits in Dryomorpha, among the ornithopod dinosaurs.