Altirhinus
Field photograph to come
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
105 million years ago
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