Dryosaurus Dryosaurus elderae Carpenter and Galton 2018
/ˌdraɪəˈsɔːrəs/
Late Jurassic (Tithonian) · 149.2–145.1 Mya
Key Statistics
Diet
herbivore
Locomotion
bipedal
inferred from clade
Habitat
ground-dwelling
Social
herding
Where It Was Found
Country
United States
Region
Utah
Formation
Morrison
Dig sites
1
distinct collections
Overview
Dryosaurus elderae is an ornithopod dinosaur known from the Late Jurassic, roughly 149.2–145.1 million years ago. It was a herbivore. It is recorded as ground-dwelling and herding. Fossils have been recovered from Utah, United States. It was named by Carpenter and Galton 2018. The species is represented by 2 recorded occurrences in the Paleobiology Database.
Fossil Record Completeness
How much of this profile is grounded in the fossil record
~8%
confidence from occurrence count
Based on 2 recorded occurrences in the Paleobiology Database.
Geologic Time
Where Dryosaurus elderae sits in deep time
Dryosaurus
252 Mya201 Mya145 Mya66 Mya
Relationships
Part of a wider fossil web
These species share Dryosaurus elderae's place in deep time — computed from overlapping age ranges, shared clades, and inferred ecology. Predator–prey pairs additionally have to have been dug up in the same place.