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Hypsilophodon

Hypsilophodon is a basal neornithischian dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous period of England. It has traditionally been considered an early member of the group Ornithopoda, but recent research has put this into question. It was a small, agile bipedal animal with an herbivorous or possibly omnivorous diet, measuring up to 2 m long and weighing 20 kg. It had a pointed head equipped with a sharp beak used to bite off plant material, as well as five pointed triangular teeth in the front of the upper jaw.

We have a hypsilophodon for today's vector paleocritter!

dinovember day 3: hypsilophodon 🥥

thinking about hypsilophodonts and Eurasian coots

I skipped 3 days for Las Vegas trip (it’s a long story). So here’s day 10-13: Hypsilophodon, Piatnitzkysaurus, Giraffatitan, and ornitholestes.

Dinosaurs: Rulers of the Earth. Written by Don Lessem. Double page illustrations by Steve Kirk. Published in 1996.

Internet Archive

Character for Jupiter, on ChickenSmoothie.

It's an Hypsilophodon with vibrant and pastel toxic inspired color palette and a raptor skull as armor.

Living Bones! I call them Kevin

Found near -83, 453, but I don't think that's exact

trying to apply what I think I've learned :3c

Two Hypsilophodon foxii fight over a burrow.

My last 2023 drawing

The year of art

Oh nuts watch your fingers--it's BITEY FACE from Chapter 5!

This is art for an article I wrote about the Texan ornithopod Convolosaurus marri, which you can read on my website.

Bitey Face is a character in an ongoing serial I'm writing called Cecelia and the Living Fossils about a teen necromancer who brings dinosaurs back from the dead. You can read the story here or on Wattpad.

Dinofact #41

Hypsilophodon was a small herbivorous, possibly omnivorous, dinosaur from the early Cretaceous period. Despite living in one of the latest periods of non-avian dinosaur life, Hypsilophodon displayed many features that are considered primitive. For example, Hypsilophodon had five-fingered hands and four-toed feet, whereas most other advanced ornithopods had three-toed feet, with only early specimens displaying four. It has been proposed that Hypsilophodon's fifth finger allowed it to grasp food easier. Additionally, Hypsilophodon had five pointed teeth in front of the upper jaw, where most other herbivores by the early Cretaceous had evolved and specialised to the point where these teeth were absent. It may be that these teeth served a special function in Hypsilophodon, which may be why some scientists believe Hypsilophodon was omnivorous.

Source: wikipedia [1], [2]

Douglas Henderson