Hypsilophodon
genus · Huxley 1870 · accepted · extinct
1 descendant taxa · 10 fossil sites · 7 formations · 5 countries
Lived when
Jurassic – Cretaceous
154.8–100.5 million years ago
Found where
5 countries
7 rock formations
Fossil record
10 sites
4 catalogued specimens
Inside this group
Immediate children
- Terminal taxon — no children recorded.
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Facts from the record
- Its fossils span about 54 million years, from 154.8 to 100.5 million years ago.
- The youngest known fossil is around 100.5 million years old — that is roughly 335 times further back than the whole of human history.
- Hypsilophodon was named in 1870 (Huxley 1870) — 156 years ago.
- Fossils have been recorded in 5 countries and 7 named rock formations.
- 4 individual specimens are catalogued in museum collections.
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Data from the Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0).