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DRACONYX
(dray-con-iks)
meaning: "dragon claw"
Named By: O. Mateus & M. T. Antunes in 2001
Time Period: Late Jurassic, Tithonian
Location: Portugal - Bombarral Formation
Size: Roughly estimated to have been 3.5 meters in length
Diet: Herbivore
Fossil(s): Partial post cranial skeletal remains
Classification: | Chordata | Reptilia | Dinosauria | Ornithischia | Ornithopoda | Camptosauroidea | Camptosauridae |
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Draconyx (meaning "dragon claw") is a genus of dinosaur from the Late Jurassic. It was an ornithopod which lived in what is now Portugal and was a herbivore. It was found in the Lourinha Formation in 1991, and described by Octavio Mateus and Miguel Telles Antunes in 2001.

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