Hesperonyx
Hesperonyx was a small, plant-eating dinosaur that lived in what is now Portugal during the Late Jurassic. It walked on two legs and used its beak to nibble on plants. Scientists know it from just a few leg and hand bones found on a beach.12
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Hesperonyx lived about 152 to 149 million years ago, during the Kimmeridgian stage of the Late Jurassic.3
Its name means 'western claw' because it was found in the western region of Portugal and its fossils include a claw.1
The only known skeleton, called ML 2700, includes bones from the left forelimb and hindlimb, such as a hand claw, shin bone, and foot bones.1
Hesperonyx was a dryomorphan, a group of plant-eating dinosaurs that are close relatives of the larger iguanodonts.3
The fossils were found in 2021 during a joint field season by FCT NOVA and Museu da Lourinhã.2
It lived in a warm, seasonal climate with rivers and floodplains, alongside other dinosaurs like Draconyx and Eousdryosaurus.2
Hesperonyx had a reduced first toe (metatarsal I), which is unusual and helps scientists tell it apart from other dinosaurs.2

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?How big was Hesperonyx?
About 3 to 4 metres (9.8 to 13.1 feet) long, which is roughly the size of a small car.12
?What did Hesperonyx eat?
It was a plant-eater (herbivore) that used its beak to nibble on plants.4
Per experts da dinos
- Num scientific
- Hesperonyx
- Numnà da
- Rotatori et al. 20244
- Gruppa
- Erbivors cun pichel
- Famiglia / clada
- Dryomorpha4
- Classificaziun
- Ornithischia > Ornithopoda > Iguanodontia4
- Vegliadetgna da la crappa
- 152 fin 149 milliuns onns (Kimmeridgian)4
- Formaziuns da crap
- Lourinhã4
- Pajais
- Portugal4
- Chats da fossils
- 1 en The Paleobiology Database4
- Scuverta
- Hesperonyx was named in 2024 by Rotatori and colleagues. The fossils were found in 2021 on Porto Dinheiro Beach in Portugal by a team from FCT NOVA and Museu da Lourinhã.12
- Anc discutà
- Scientists are not sure exactly where Hesperonyx fits in the dinosaur family tree. It is definitely a dryomorphan, but its exact relationships are still debated.2
Danunder che vegnan ils fatgs
- Hesperonyx (en.wikipedia.org)
- An unexpected early-diverging iguanodontian dinosaur (Ornithischia, Ornithopoda) from the Upper Jura (docentes.fct.unl.pt)
- PBDB Taxon (paleobiodb.org)
- Hesperonyx in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): vegliadetgna, lieus, formaziuns da crap, classificaziun.
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