Mochlodon
Field photograph to come
Mochlodon
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- Lived
- 86 to 66 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ornithopods
- Found in
- Romania, Austria and Hungary
- Named by
- Seeley 1881
Field notes
About Mochlodon
Mochlodon was a plant-eating ornithopod that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 86 to 66 million years ago.
The Paleobiology Database lists 4 finds of Mochlodon, from Romania, Austria and Hungary. Its fossils come from rocks including the Csehbánya Formation, the Grünbach Formation and the Jibou Formation. It was named by Seeley in 1881.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
75 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Rhabdodontoidea.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: H. G. Seeley. 1881. The reptile fauna of the Gosau Formation preserved in the Geological Museum of the University of Vienna. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 37(148):620-707