Named By: | Varricchio et al. in 2007 |
Time Period: | Late Cretaceous, Cenomanian |
Location: | USA, Idaho - Wayan Formation, Montana - Blackleaf Formation |
Size: | 2.1 meters long for adults |
Diet: | unavailable |
Fossil(s): | Several partial skeletons |
Classification: | | Chordata | Reptilia | Dinosauria | Ornithischia | Cerapoda | Ornithopoda | Hypsilophodontidae | |
Oryctodromeus (meaning "digging runner") was a genus of small ornithopod dinosaur. Fossils are known from the middle Cretaceous Blackleaf Formation of southwestern Montana and the Wayan Formation of southeastern Idaho, USA, both of the Cenomanian stage, roughly 95 million years ago. A member of the small, presumably fast-running herbivorous family Thescelosauridae, Oryctodromeus is the first dinosaur published that shows evidence of burrowing behavior.