Olorotitan

Field photograph to come

DV-0521Udurchukan Fm., Russia

Olorotitan

DV-0521

Lived
72 to 66 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
Diet
Herbivore
Group
Ornithopods, Hadrosauridae
Found in
Russia
Named by
Godefroit et al. 2003

Field notes

About Olorotitan

Olorotitan was a plant-eating ornithopod that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 72 to 66 million years ago. It belongs to the family Hadrosauridae.

The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Olorotitan, from Russia. Its fossils come from the Udurchukan Formation. It was named by Godefroit et al. in 2003.

The evidence

Where its fossils were found

Today

1 find

70 million years ago

Map: C. R. Scotese, PALEOMAP

Lived alongside

Found in the same rock formations.

Close relatives

Other members of Hadrosauridae.

Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: P. Godefroit, Y. Bolotsky, and V. Alifanov. 2003. A remarkable hollow-crested hadrosaur from Russia: an Asian origin for lambeosaurines. Comptes Rendus Palevol 2:143-151