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bird-hipped dinosaur
Echinodon
Say it like this: “e-KIEN-o-don”
Echinodon becklesii
Echinodon ate plants and walked on two legs. It lived in the Early Cretaceous. Bones have been found in the United Kingdom.
- When
- Early Cretaceous (Berriasian) · roughly 143.1 to 137.1 million years ago
- Named in
- 1861 · Owen, R.
- Hip height
- 0.1 m · 0 ft
- Length
- 0.7 m · 2 ft
- Weight
- 0 kg · 1 lb
- Found in
- the United Kingdom · Lulworth
- Food and walking
- Herbivore · Two legs
- Kind
- bird-hipped dinosaur · Ornithischian
- Family branch
- Heterodontosauridae
The story in short
The genus Echinodon dates to 1861, the year R. Owen described it. The name means “prickly tooth.”
It lived in the Early Cretaceous (Berriasian), roughly 143.1 to 137.1 million years ago. Finds come from the United Kingdom, including the Lulworth Formation. It was a herbivore and walked on two legs.
Published estimates put Echinodon at a length near 0.7 m, hips about 0.1 m high, and a body mass around 0 kg.
On the family tree it sits in Heterodontosauridae, among the bird-hipped dinosaurs.
Close relatives
Fruitadens
Fruitadens haagarorum
Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian) · roughly 154.8 to 149.2 million years ago
Geranosaurus
Geranosaurus atavus
Early Jurassic (Sinemurian · Pliensbachian) · roughly 199.5 to 184.2 million years ago
Tianyulong
Tianyulong confuciusi
Middle Jurassic · Late Jurassic (Callovian · Oxfordian) · roughly 165.3 to 154.8 million years ago