Altirhinus

Field photograph to come

DV-0409Khuren Dukh Fm., Mongolia

Altirhinus

DV-0409

Lived
110 to 101 million years ago, Early Cretaceous
Diet
Herbivore
Group
Ornithopods
Found in
Mongolia
Named by
Norman 1998

Field notes

About Altirhinus

Altirhinus was a plant-eating ornithopod that lived in the Early Cretaceous, 110 to 101 million years ago.

The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Altirhinus, from Mongolia. Its fossils come from the Khuren Dukh Formation. It was named by Norman in 1998.

The evidence

Where its fossils were found

Today

1 find

105 million years ago

Map: C. R. Scotese, PALEOMAP

Lived alongside

Found in the same rock formations.

Close relatives

Other members of Neoiguanodontia.

Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: D. B. Norman. 1998. On Asian ornithopods (Dinosauria: Ornithischia). 3. A new species of iguanodontid dinosaur. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 122:291-348