| Draconyx Temporal range: Late Jurassic,
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | †Ornithischia |
| Clade: | †Neornithischia |
| Clade: | †Ornithopoda |
| Genus: | †Draconyx Mateus & Antunes, 2001 |
| Species: | †D. loureiroi
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| †Draconyx loureiroi Mateus & Antunes, 2001
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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.[1]
- ^ Mateus, Octávio; Telles Antunes, Miguel (2001). "Draconyx loureiroi, a new camptosauridae (Dinosauria, Ornithopoda) from the Late Jurassic of Lourinhã, Portugal" (PDF). Annales de Paléontologie. 87 (1): 61–73. Bibcode:2001AnPal..87...61M. doi:10.1016/S0753-3969(01)88003-4.