Jeyawati

Field photograph to come

DV-0741Moreno Hill Fm., New Mexico

Jeyawati

DV-0741

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

1 find

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: 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