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NOTOHYPSILOPHODON
(no-toe-hip-sil-o-foe-don)
meaning: "Southern Hypsilophodon"
Notohypsilophodon
Named By: R. D. Martinez in 1998
Time Period: Late Cretaceous
Location: Argentina - Bajo Barreal Formation
Size: Holotype roughly about 1.3 meters long, but this is of a juvenile, fully grown adults were likely larger
Diet: Herbivore
Fossil(s): Partial post cranial skeleton of a juvenile including hind limb, shoulder and rib bones as well as some vertebrae
Classification: | Chordata | Reptilia | Dinosauria | Ornithischia | Ornithopoda | Iguanodontia |
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Notohypsilophodon (meaning "southern Hypsilophodon") is a genus of euornithopod dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of Argentina. It was described as the only "hypsilophodont" known from South America, although this assessment is not universally supported, and Gasparinisaura is now believed to have been a basal euornithopod as well.

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