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bird-hipped dinosaur
Phyllodon
Say it like this: “FILL-o-don”
Phyllodon henkeli
Phyllodon ate plants and walked on two legs. It lived in the Late Jurassic. Bones have been found in Portugal.
- When
- Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian) · roughly 154.8 to 149.2 million years ago
- Named in
- 1973 · Thulborn, R. A.
- Hip height
- Not established
- Length
- 1–2 m · 3–7 ft
- Weight
- Not established
- Found in
- Portugal · Alcobaça
- Food and walking
- Herbivore · Two legs
- Kind
- bird-hipped dinosaur · Ornithischian
- Family branch
- Neornithischia
The story in short
The genus Phyllodon dates to 1973, the year R. A. Thulborn described it. The name honors a person tied to the fossil or its study.
It lived in the Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian), roughly 154.8 to 149.2 million years ago. Finds come from Portugal, including the Alcobaça Formation. It was a herbivore and walked on two legs.
Published estimates put Phyllodon at a length near 1–2 m.
On the family tree it sits in Neornithischia, among the bird-hipped dinosaurs.
Close relatives
Agilisaurus
Agilisaurus louderbacki
Middle Jurassic · Late Jurassic (Bajocian–Oxfordian) · roughly 170.9 to 154.8 million years ago
Enigmacursor
Enigmacursor mollyborthwickae
Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian · Tithonian) · roughly 154.8 to 143.1 million years ago
Hexinlusaurus
Hexinlusaurus multidens
Middle Jurassic · Late Jurassic (Bajocian–Oxfordian) · roughly 170.9 to 154.8 million years ago