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beaked plant-eater · Doubtful name
Eucercosaurus
Eucercosaurus tanyspondylus
Eucercosaurus ate plants and walked on two legs. It lived in the Early Cretaceous. Bones have been found in the United Kingdom.
- When
- Early Cretaceous (Albian) · roughly 113.2 to 100.5 million years ago
- Named in
- 1879 · Seeley, H. G.
- Hip height
- Not established
- Length
- Not established
- Weight
- Not established
- Found in
- the United Kingdom · West Melbury Marly Chalk
- Food and walking
- Herbivore · Two legs
- Kind
- beaked plant-eater · Ornithopod
- Family branch
- Iguanodontia
The story in short
The genus Eucercosaurus dates to 1879, the year H. G. Seeley described it. The name means “good-tailed lizard.”
It lived in the Early Cretaceous (Albian), roughly 113.2 to 100.5 million years ago. Finds come from the United Kingdom, including the West Melbury Marly Chalk Formation. It was a herbivore and walked on two legs.
The fossils of Eucercosaurus 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 Iguanodontia, among the ornithopod dinosaurs.