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DRINKER
(drink-er)
meaning: "named after Edward Drinker Cope"
Named By: Robert Bakker, Peter Galton, James Siegwarth & James Filla in 1990
Time Period: Late Jurassic
Location: USA, Wyoming - Morrison Formation
Size: About 2 meters long
Diet: Herbivore
Fossil(s): Holotype is a partial post cranial skeleton of a subadult, though many more individuals have now been assigned to the genus
Classification: | Chordata | Reptilia | Dinosauria | Ornithischia | Hypsilophodontidae |
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Drinker (named after the palaentologist Edward Drinker Cope) was a genus of hypsilophodont dinosaur from the late Jurassic period of North America. Although based on good remains, it remains obscure due to a lack of post-naming publications.

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