Hypsilophodon Hypsilophodon foxii (Huxley 1870)
/ˌhɪpsɪˈlɒfoʊdɒn/
Early Cretaceous (Barremian) · 125.8–121.4 Mya
Key Statistics
Diet
herbivore
Locomotion
bipedal
inferred from clade
Habitat
ground-dwelling
Where It Was Found
Country
United Kingdom
Region
England
Formation
Wessex
Dig sites
2
distinct collections
Overview
Hypsilophodon foxii is an ornithopod dinosaur known from the Early Cretaceous, roughly 125.8–121.4 million years ago. It was a herbivore. It is recorded as ground-dwelling. Fossils have been recovered from England, United Kingdom. It was named by (Huxley 1870). The species is represented by 3 recorded occurrences in the Paleobiology Database.
Fossil Record Completeness
How much of this profile is grounded in the fossil record
~11%
confidence from occurrence count
Based on 3 recorded occurrences in the Paleobiology Database.
Geologic Time
Where Hypsilophodon foxii sits in deep time
Hypsilophodon
252 Mya201 Mya145 Mya66 Mya
Relationships
Part of a wider fossil web
These species share Hypsilophodon foxii'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.