Barsboldia
Field photograph to come
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
70 million years ago
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