Draconyx loureiroi Mateus and Antunes 2001 (ornithopod)

Reptilia - Ornithischia

Alternative combination: Draconyx loureoi

Full reference: O. Mateus and M. T. Antunes. 2001. Draconyx loureiroi, a new camptosauridae (Dinosauria, Ornithopoda) from the Late Jurassic of Lourinhã, Portugal. Annales de Paléontologie 87(1):61-73

Belongs to Draconyx according to F. M. Rotatori et al. 2022

See also Burigo and Mateus 2024, Castanera et al. 2020, Fuentes Vidarte et al. 2016, Galton 2009, Madzia et al. 2018, Mateus 2006, Mateus and Antunes 2001, Mateus and Milàn 2005, Mateus and Milàn 2010, McDonald et al. 2010, Norman 2004, Ortega et al. 2009, Párraga and Prieto-Márquez 2019, Pascual-Arribas et al. 2009, Pereda Suberbiola et al. 2006, Rotatori et al. 2020, Ruiz-Omeñaca et al. 2007, Ruiz-Omeñaca et al. 2008, Ruiz-Omeñaca et al. 2010, Sánchez-Fenollosa et al. 2021, Sánchez-Fenollosa et al. 2022, Verdú et al. 2015 and Verdú et al. 2021

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: ML 357, a partial skeleton. Its type locality is Draconyx type, Vale de Frades, which is in a Tithonian coarse channel fill siltstone/sandstone in the Lourinhã Formation of Portugal.

Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore

Distribution: found only at Draconyx type, Vale de Frades

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