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Draconyx
Extinct genus of dinosaurs / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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]
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | †Ornithischia |
Clade: | †Neornithischia |
Clade: | †Ornithopoda |
Genus: | †Draconyx Mateus & Antunes, 2001 |
Species: | †D. loureiroi |
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†Draconyx loureiroi Mateus & Antunes, 2001 | |
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