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bird-hipped dinosaur
Eocursor
Say it like this: “ee-o-KUHR-sor”
Eocursor parvus
Eocursor ate plants and walked on two legs. It lived in the Early Jurassic. Bones have been found in South Africa.
- When
- Early Jurassic (Hettangian · Sinemurian) · roughly 201.4 to 192.9 million years ago
- Named in
- 2007 · Butler, R. J.; Smith, R. M.; Norman, D. B.
- Hip height
- 0.3 m · 1 ft
- Length
- 1 m · 3 ft
- Weight
- 1 kg · 3 lb
- Found in
- South Africa · Elliot
- Food and walking
- Herbivore · Two legs
- Kind
- bird-hipped dinosaur · Ornithischian
- Family branch
- Ornithischia
The story in short
The genus Eocursor dates to 2007, the year R. J. Butler and colleagues described it.
Fossils referred to Eocursor date to the Early Jurassic (Hettangian · Sinemurian), roughly 201.4 to 192.9 million years ago. Finds come from South Africa, including the Elliot Formation. It was a herbivore and walked on two legs.
Published estimates put Eocursor at a length near 1 m, hips about 0.3 m high, and a body mass around 1 kg.
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