Iani
Field photograph to come
Iani
DV-1206
- Lived
- 101 to 94 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ornithopods, Tenontosauridae
- Found in
- United States
- Named by
- Zanno et al. 2023
Field notes
About Iani
Iani was a plant-eating ornithopod that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 101 to 94 million years ago. It belongs to the family Tenontosauridae.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Iani, from Utah. Its fossils come from the Cedar Mountain Formation. It was named by Zanno et al. in 2023.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
95 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Tenontosauridae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: L. E. Zanno, T. A. Gates, and H. V. Avrahami, R. T. Tucker, P. J. Makovicky. 2023. An early-diverging iguanodontian (Dinosauria: Rhabdodontomorpha) from the Late Cretaceous of North America. PLoS One 18(6):e0286042:1-54