Types of Dinosaurs

Names of Dinosaurs & Dinosaur Information
Dinosaur Name:

Hypsilophodon

- Pronunciation: hip-sih-LO-fuh-don
- Translation: High-Ridge Tooth
- Order: Ornithischia
- Suborder: Ornithopoda
- Family: Hypsilophodontidae
- Height: 4 feet (1.2 meters)
- Weight: 140 pounds (64 kg)
- Length: 7.5 feet (2.3 meters)
- Period: Early Cretaceous
- Description: Herbivore, Bipedal
- Notes: Hypsilophodon was the fastest of the ornithischians that lived in central United States, England, Spain and Portugal.Its snout ended in a beak, but it had teeth at the rear of its mouth.Hypsilophodon was once thought to have lived in trees, thoughthis has since been disproven.