Hypsibema
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| Hypsibema Fossil range: Late Cretaceous |
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Hypsibema is a little-known genus of dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous (Campanian stage, around 75 million years ago). Its giant fossils were found in the U.S. states of North Carolina and Missouri. It is believed to be a hadrosaur, although the Missouri remains were first thought to belong to a small sauropod ("Neosaurus", renamed Parrosaurus).
The type species, Hypsibema crassicauda, was described by Edward Drinker Cope in 1869. A second species, H. missouriensis (Parrosaurus), is the official state dinosaur of Missouri, but both species are based on fragmentary material, and are considered dubious.
[edit] References
- Hypsibema in the Dinosaur Encyclopedia at DinoRuss' Lair
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