Product Description
Our plastic hypsilophodon herbivorous dinosaur family doesn't look as scary as the other land dinosaurs you can imagine. We promise, they only like leaves and not people! Look at the beautiful, realistic detail! Of course, this extinct Cretaceous herbivore was never seen by humans, so it is painted the way paleontologists think its coloring might have looked. Our plastic toy hypsilophodon family is made of solid plastic and is quite durable. Be sure to take a look at our other dinosaurs as well as prehistoric animals and humans from many ages of Earth's history.
Hypsilophodon is an ornithischian dinosaur genus from the Early Cretaceous period of England. The first remains of Hypsilophodon were found in 1849; the type species, Hypsilophodon foxii, was named in 1869. Abundant fossil discoveries were made on the Isle of Wight, giving a good impression of the build of the species. It was a small bipedal animal with an herbivorous or possibly omnivorous diet. Hypsilophodon reached up to 1.8 metres (5.9 ft) in length, weighed about 20 kg (45 lbs), and was an agile runner. It had a pointed head equipped with a sharp beak used to bite off plant material, much like modern day parrots.