Hypselospinus
genus of reptiles (fossil)
Hypselospinus is a genus of iguanodontian dinosaur which was first described as a species of Iguanodon (I. fittoni) by Richard Lydekker in 1889, the specific name honouring William Henry Fitton.[1] Hypselospinus grew to be around 6 meters (19.7 ft) long.
| Hypselospinus Temporal range: Early Cretaceous,
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Order: | †Ornithischia |
| Suborder: | †Ornithopoda |
| Clade: | †Ankylopollexia |
| Clade: | †Styracosterna |
| Genus: | †Hypselospinus Norman, 2010 |
| Species: | †H. fittoni
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| Hypselospinus fittoni | |
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Synonyms
change- Iguanodon fittoni (Lydekker, 1889) = Hypselospinus fittoni
- Wadhurstia (Carpenter & Ishida, 2010) = Hypselospinus fittoni
References
change- ↑ Lydekker, Richard (1889). "On the remains and affinities of five genera of Mesozoic reptiles". Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London. 45 (1–4): 41–59. doi:10.1144/GSL.JGS.1889.045.01-04.04. S2CID 128586645.