[1][2][3] The specimens were described and named online, through use of ZooBank registration, in January 2018, in a study in which the sedimentology, taphonomy, palaeoecology, and stratigraphy of the site were also investigated.

The specific name, pickeringi, is honoring David A. Pickering, who had made notable contributions to palaeontology in Australia, and who died at the time of the preparation of the study.

It would have been deposited in a deep and high-energy river, the carcass thought to have been caught in a trap of plant debris on a standing tree stump.

[1] The holotype individual, thought to be an older juvenile, was estimated to be 1.2 metres (3.9 ft) in length, using the proportions of Hypsilophodon to fill in unknown areas; it has been compared to the size of a modern wild turkey.

[5] Heterodontosauridae Eocursor Thyreophora Lesothosaurus Agilisaurus Hexinlusaurus Yandusaurus Nanosaurus Jeholosauridae Thescelosauridae Marginocephalia Parksosaurus Talenkauen Macrogryphosaurus Gasparinisaura Galleonosaurus Leaellynasaura Anabisetia Diluvicursor Hypsilophodon Iguanodontia