Dakotadon
Field photograph to come
Dakotadon
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- Lived
- 137 to 133 million years ago, Early Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ornithopods
- Found in
- United States
- Named by
- Paul 2008
Field notes
About Dakotadon
Dakotadon was a plant-eating ornithopod that lived in the Early Cretaceous, 137 to 133 million years ago.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Dakotadon, from South Dakota. Its fossils come from the Lakota Formation. It was named by Paul in 2008.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
135 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Styracosterna.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: G. S. Paul. 2008. A revised taxonomy of the iguanodont dinosaur genera and species. Cretaceous Research 29(2):192-216