Drinker

Named for Edward Drinker Cope

• Drinker · English (surname) · middle name of Edward Drinker Cope, the palaeontologist honoured

Drinker was named in honour of the American palaeontologist Edward Drinker Cope, using his middle name. Cope was a famous fossil collector and a major figure in the "Bone Wars" rivalry with O. C. Marsh. The name is a personal name and not a Greek or Latin compound, so it has no "-saurus" ending.

Named by

Bakker et al.

Year named

1990

Period

Late Jurassic

Stages

Kimmeridgian – Tithonian

Found in

Morrison Formation, Wyoming, USA

Drinker is a small, bipedal herbivorous ornithischian (an early ornithopod-grade dinosaur). The type species is Drinker nisti. Its exact relationships and validity have been debated, and some researchers have suggested it is close to or the same as Othnielosaurus. The stage range is approximate.