Jeyawati
Field photograph to come
Jeyawati
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- Lived
- 94 to 90 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ornithopods
- Found in
- United States
- Named by
- McDonald et al. 2010
Field notes
About Jeyawati
Jeyawati was a plant-eating ornithopod that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 94 to 90 million years ago.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Jeyawati, from New Mexico. Its fossils come from the Moreno Hill Formation. It was named by McDonald et al. in 2010.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
90 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Hadrosauroidea.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: A. T. McDonald, D. G. Wolfe, and J. I. Kirkland. 2010. A new basal hadrosauroid (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) from the Turonian of New Mexico. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30(3):799-812