Dryosaurus elderae Carpenter and Galton 2018 (ornithopod)

Reptilia - Ornithischia - Dryosauridae

Full reference: K. Carpenter and P. M. Galton. 2018. A photo documentation of bipedal ornithischian dinosaurs from the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation, USA. Geology of the Intermountain West 5:167-207

Belongs to Dryosaurus according to K. Carpenter and P. M. Galton 2018

See also Herne et al. 2019 and Sánchez-Fenollosa et al. 2021

Sister taxon: Dryosaurus altus

Type specimen: CM 3392, a partial skeleton. Its type locality is Dinosaur National Monument Quarry (CM), which is in a Tithonian coarse channel fill sandstone in the Morrison Formation of Utah.

Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore

Distribution: found only at Dinosaur National Monument Quarry (CM)

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