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bird-hipped dinosaur
Doolysaurus
Say it like this: “DOO-lee-SOR-us”
Doolysaurus huhmini
Doolysaurus ate plants and walked on two legs. It lived in the Late Cretaceous. Bones have been found in South Korea.
- When
- Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) · roughly 100.5 to 93.9 million years ago
- Named in
- 2026 · Jung, J.; Kim, M.; Jo, H.; Clarke, J. A.
- Hip height
- Not established
- Length
- Not established
- Weight
- 8 kg · 18 lb
- Found in
- South Korea · Ilseongsan
- Food and walking
- Herbivore · Two legs
- Kind
- bird-hipped dinosaur · Ornithischian
- Family branch
- Thescelosaurinae
The story in short
The genus Doolysaurus dates to 2026, the year J. Jung and colleagues described it. The name honors a person tied to the fossil or its study.
Fossils referred to Doolysaurus date to the Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian), roughly 100.5 to 93.9 million years ago. Finds come from South Korea, including the Ilseongsan Formation. It was a herbivore and walked on two legs.
Published estimates put Doolysaurus at a body mass around 8 kg.
On the family tree it sits in Thescelosaurinae, among the bird-hipped dinosaurs.