Draconyx

Draconyx
Temporal range: Late Jurassic,
Draconyx loureiroi restoration
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Ornithischia
Clade: Ornithopoda
Genus: Draconyx
Mateus & Antunes, 2001
Species:
D. loureiroi
Binomial name
Draconyx loureiroi
Mateus & Antunes, 2001

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.

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