Hypsilophodon Temporal range: Lower Cretaceous, 130–125 mya
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Family: | Hypsilophodontidae
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Genus: | Hypsilophodon
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Hypsilophodon foxii Huxley, 1869
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Hypsilophodon was a small, fast-running, plant-eating dinosaur. It lived 125 million years ago, was 2.3 metres long (7/8 feet), including tail, and weighed about the same as a man.
It was originally thought to be a young Iguanodon which could climb trees. Later it was realised to be a different species, and to be a running dinosaur, not adapted for climbing.