Barsboldia

Field photograph to come

DV-0270Nemegt Fm., Mongolia

Barsboldia

DV-0270 · type species Barsboldia sicinskii

Lived
72 to 66 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
Diet
Herbivore
Group
Ornithopods, Hadrosauridae
Found in
Mongolia
Named by
Maryanska and Osmólska 1981

Field notes

About Barsboldia

Barsboldia 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 2 finds of Barsboldia, from Mongolia. Its fossils come from the Nemegt Formation. It was named by Maryanska and Osmólska in 1981.

The evidence

Where its fossils were found

Today

2 finds

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: T. Maryanska and H. Osmólska. 1981. First lambeosaurine dinosaur from the Nemegt Formation, Upper Cretaceous, Mongolia. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 26(3-1):243-255