Zephyrosaurus schaffi Sues 1980 (ornithopod)

Reptilia - Ornithischia

Full reference: H.-D. Sues. 1980. Anatomy and relationships of a new hypsilophodontid dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of North America. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 169(1-3):51-72

Belongs to Zephyrosaurus according to R. J. Butler et al. 2008

See also Andrzejewski et al. 2019, Bell et al. 2018, Buchholz 2002, Butler and Zhao 2009, Dieudonné et al. 2020, Galton 1989, Galton 2009, Godefroit and Knoll 2003, Han et al. 2012, Herne et al. 2019, Hübner 2016, Kutter 2003, Norman et al. 2004, Stanford et al. 2004, Sues 1980, Sues 1997, Sues and Norman 1990, Weems and Bachman 2015, Weishampel and Heinrich 1992 and Weishampel and Weishampel 1983

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: MCZ 4392, a partial skeleton. Its type locality is Wolf Creek Canyon (MCZ), which is in an Albian terrestrial sandstone in the Cloverly Formation of Montana.

Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore

Distribution: found only at Wolf Creek Canyon (MCZ)

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