Hypsilophodon

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Hypsilophodon
Fossil range: Early Cretaceous
Hypsilophodon skeleton.
Hypsilophodon skeleton.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Sauropsida
Superorder: Dinosauria
Order: Ornithischia
Suborder: Ornithopoda
Family: Hypsilophodontidae
Genus: Hypsilophodon
Binomial name
Hypsilophodon foxii
Huxley, 1869

Hypsilophodon was a plant-eating dinosaur that lived 105 million years ago. It has lots of relatives such as Zephyrosaurus. It was thought to climb trees. It was thought to be a young Iguanodon but later noticed to be another animal.