Hypsilophodon foxii
Taxon
Hypsilophodon foxii Huxley, 1869
Reconstructed length
~1.7 m (5.5 feet)
View
Left lateral
Drawing
© Scott Hartman
Drawn
2015, revised 2026
Clade
- Ornithischia
- Neornithischia
- Ornithopoda
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For more than a century Hypsilophodon was seen as the quintessential small, lightly built ornithopod dinosaur. Living during the Early Cretaceous of England, where it’s best known from the Isle of Wight. Hypsilophodon was once proposed to be a tree-climber, although its anatomy is more consistent with a fast-running, ground-dwelling plant-eater, roughly the size of a large dog.