Gilmoreosaurus
Field photograph to come
Gilmoreosaurus
DV-0251 · type species Gilmoreosaurus mongoliensis
- Lived
- 84 to 72 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Length
- about 6 m (20 ft)
- Group
- Ornithopods
- Found in
- China
- Named by
- Brett-Surman 1979
Field notes
About Gilmoreosaurus
Gilmoreosaurus was a plant-eating ornithopod that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 84 to 72 million years ago.
The Paleobiology Database lists 2 finds of Gilmoreosaurus, from China. Its fossils come from the Iren Dabasu Formation. It was named by Brett-Surman in 1979.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
80 million years ago
To scale
How big was Gilmoreosaurus?
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Hadrosauroidea.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: M . K. Brett-Surman. 1979. Phylogeny and palaeobiogeography of hadrosaurian dinosaurs. Nature 277:560-562