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bird-hipped dinosaur
Fruitadens
Say it like this: “FRU-tah-denz”
Fruitadens haagarorum
Fruitadens ate plants and walked on two legs. It lived in the Late Jurassic. Bones have been found in the United States.
- When
- Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian) · roughly 154.8 to 149.2 million years ago
- Named in
- 2010 · Butler, R. J.; Galton, P. M.; Porro, L. B.; Chiappe, L. M.; Henderson, D. M.; Erickson, G. M.
- Hip height
- Not established
- Length
- 0.7–0.8 m · 2–2 ft
- Weight
- 1 kg · 2 lb
- Found in
- the United States · Morrison
- Food and walking
- Herbivore · Two legs
- Kind
- bird-hipped dinosaur · Ornithischian
- Family branch
- Heterodontosauridae
The story in short
The genus Fruitadens dates to 2010, the year R. J. Butler and colleagues described it.
It lived in the Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian), roughly 154.8 to 149.2 million years ago. Finds come from the United States, including the Morrison Formation. It was a herbivore and walked on two legs.
Published estimates put Fruitadens at a length near 0.7–0.8 m and a body mass around 1 kg.
On the family tree it sits in Heterodontosauridae, among the bird-hipped dinosaurs.
Close relatives
Echinodon
Echinodon becklesii
Early Cretaceous (Berriasian) · roughly 143.1 to 137.1 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