Eolambia
Field photograph to come
Eolambia
DV-0412
- Lived
- 101 to 94 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Length
- about 6 m (20 ft)
- Group
- Ornithopods
- Found in
- United States
- Named by
- Kirkland 1998
Field notes
About Eolambia
Eolambia was a plant-eating ornithopod that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 101 to 94 million years ago.
The Paleobiology Database lists 12 finds of Eolambia, from Utah. Its fossils come from the Cedar Mountain Formation. It was named by Kirkland in 1998.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
95 million years ago
To scale
How big was Eolambia?
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Hadrosauroidea.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: J. I. Kirkland. 1998. A new hadrosaurid from the upper Cedar Mountain Formation (Albian-Cenomanian: Cretaceous) of eastern Utah - the oldest known hadrosaurid (lambeosaurine?). Lower and Middle Cretaceous Terrestrial Ecosystems, S. G. Lucas, J. I. Kirkland & J. W. Estep (eds.). New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 14:283-295