Gobihadros

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DV-1056Baynshire Fm., Mongolia

Gobihadros

DV-1056 · type species Gobihadros mongoliensis

Lived
101 to 84 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
Diet
Herbivore
Group
Ornithopods
Found in
Mongolia
Named by
Tsogtbaatar et al. 2019

Field notes

About Gobihadros

Gobihadros was a plant-eating ornithopod that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 101 to 84 million years ago.

The Paleobiology Database lists 6 finds of Gobihadros, from Mongolia. Its fossils come from the Baynshire Formation. It was named by Tsogtbaatar et al. in 2019.

The evidence

Where its fossils were found

Today

6 finds

90 million years ago

Map: C. R. Scotese, PALEOMAP

Lived alongside

Found in the same rock formations.

Close relatives

Other members of Hadrosauroidea.

Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: K. Tsogtbaatar, D. B. Weishampel, and D. C. Evans, M. Watabe. 2019. A new hadrosauroid (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) from the Late Cretaceous Baynshire Formation of the Gobi Desert (Mongolia). PLoS ONE 14(4):e0208480:1-47