Eotrachodon
Field photograph to come
Eotrachodon
DV-0949
- Lived
- 86 to 84 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ornithopods, Hadrosauridae
- Found in
- United States
- Named by
- Prieto-Márquez et al. 2016
Field notes
About Eotrachodon
Eotrachodon was a plant-eating ornithopod that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 86 to 84 million years ago. It belongs to the family Hadrosauridae.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Eotrachodon, from Alabama. Its fossils come from the Mooreville Chalk Formation. It was named by Prieto-Márquez et al. in 2016.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
80 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Hadrosauridae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: A. Prieto-Márquez, G. M. Erickson, and J. A. Ebersole. 2016. A primitive hadrosaurid from southeastern North America and the origin and early evolution of ‘duck-billed’ dinosaurs. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 36(2):e1054495:1-10