Ajnabia

DV-1129 · type species Ajnabia odysseus

Lived: 72 to 66 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
Diet: Herbivore
Group: Ornithopods, Hadrosauridae
Found in: Morocco
Named by: Longrich et al. 2021

Field notes

About Ajnabia

Ajnabia was a plant-eating ornithopod that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 72 to 66 million years ago. It belongs to the family Hadrosauridae.

The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Ajnabia, from Morocco. Its fossils come from the Couche III Formation. It was named by Longrich et al. in 2021.

The evidence

Where its fossils were found

Today

1 find

70 million years ago

Map: C. R. Scotese, PALEOMAP

Lived alongside

Found in the same rock formations.

Close relatives

Other members of Hadrosauridae.

Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: N. R. Longrich, X. Pereda Suberbiola, and R. A. Pyron, N.-E. Jalil. 2021. The first duckbill dinosaur (Hadrosauridae: Lambeosaurinae) from Africa and the role of oceanic dispersal in dinosaur biogeography. Cretaceous Research 120:104678