Draconyx (meaning "dragon claw") is a genus of dinosaur from the Late Jurassic. It was an ornithopod which lived in what is now Portugal and was a herbivore. It was found in the Lourinhã Formation in 1991, and described by Octávio Mateus and Miguel Telles Antunes in 2001.[1]
^Mateus, Octávio; Telles Antunes, Miguel (2001). "Draconyx loureiroi, a new camptosauridae (Dinosauria, Ornithopoda) from the Late Jurassic of Lourinhã, Portugal" (PDF). Annales de Paléontologie. 87: 61–73. doi:10.1016/S0753-3969(01)88003-4.
Draconyx (meaning "dragon claw") is a genus of dinosaur from the Late Jurassic. It was an ornithopod which lived in what is now Portugal and was a herbivore...
metres (20–23 ft) long, larger than its close relatives Camptosaurus and Draconyx. This makes it the largest ornithopod known from Europe in the Late Jurassic...
Hesperonyx is the third named iguanodontian known from this formation, after Draconyx and Eousdryosaurus. Rotatori, F. M.; Ferrari, L.; Sequero, C.; Camilo,...
around 2.8 metres (9.2 ft), much larger than the contemporary relative Draconyx. The primitive styracosternan Iguanacolossus was named for its distinct...
The Fuentecillas specimen is seen to be closer to Camptosaurus than to Draconyx from the Jurassic of Portugal, hence its tentative placement within the...
have a close counterpart (Brachiosaurus and Lusotitan; Camptosaurus and Draconyx). Other vertebrates that shared the same paleoenvironment included ray-finned...
have a close counterpart (Brachiosaurus and Lusotitan, Camptosaurus and Draconyx). Allosaurus coexisted with fellow large theropods Ceratosaurus and Torvosaurus...
have a close counterpart – Brachiosaurus and Lusotitan, Camptosaurus and Draconyx, and Apatosaurus and Dinheirosaurus. Other vertebrates that are known to...
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