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Hylaeosaurus
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A specimen of Hylaeosaurus was one of the 3 fossils first identified as dinosaurs by Richard Owen in 1841.
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- Pronounced
- HIGH-lee-oh-sore-us
- Meaning of name
- woodland lizard
- Length
- 5m
- Diet
- herbivorous
- When it lived
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Early Cretaceous
(150 - 135 million years ago) - Found in
- England, United Kingdom
Taxonomic details
- Taxonomy
- Dinosauria, Ornithischia, Genasauria, Thyreophora, Ankylosauromorpha, Ankylosauria, Hylaeosaurus
- Named by
- Mantell (1833)
- Type species
- armatus