Dinosaur
Hypsilophodon
Its first remains were found in 1849.
Hypsilophodon was a small dinosaur that was long imagined climbing trees.
Three stages. One companion.
Game artwork
AI-generated, stylized game illustrations. These designs and growth stages are imaginative, not scientific reconstructions.
Hypsilophodon at a glance
- Diet
- Herbivore
- A plant-based diet is inferred from its anatomy and comparisons with related animals; not all herbivores ate the same plants.
- When it lived
- Cretaceous
- Group
- Neornithischia
- Neornithischians
- Fossil locations
- England
- Places where fossils have been found
Beyond the game
The real Hypsilophodon
Today that interpretation has been discarded. It walked on two legs, measured approximately 1.5 to 2 meters and used its beak to cut vegetation. Its size placed it far from the large herbivores that usually star in dinosaur scenes.
Its first remains were found in England in 1849. Since then the way of representing it has changed: the image of a climbing animal gave way to that of a ground dweller. Its story shows that an ancient discovery can continue to teach new things.
This grouping describes evolutionary relationships. Its members share ancestors; they do not form a chain in which one must turn into another.
Fossil discoveries
Selected fossil records · present-day map
Map references
Map: Natural Earth, public domain. Fossil records: linked collections and publications.Sources & text credits
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- Hypsilophodon foxii
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- Hypsilophodon
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- Neornithischia
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- Living birds
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