Iyuku
Field photograph to come
Iyuku
DV-1177
- Lived
- 137 to 133 million years ago, Early Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ornithopods
- Found in
- South Africa
- Named by
- Forster et al. 2022
Field notes
About Iyuku
Iyuku was a plant-eating ornithopod that lived in the Early Cretaceous, 137 to 133 million years ago.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Iyuku, from South Africa. Its fossils come from the Kirkwood Formation. It was named by Forster et al. in 2022.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
135 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Euiguanodontia.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: C. A. Forster, W. J. de Klerk, and K. E. Poole, A. Chinsamy-Turan, E. M. Roberts, | C. F. Ross. 2022. Iyuku raathi, a new iguanodontian dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Kirkwood Formation, South Africa. The Anatomical Record 306:1762-1803