Ornatops
Field photograph to come
Ornatops
DV-1151 · type species Ornatops incantatus
- Lived
- 84 to 72 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ornithopods, Hadrosauridae
- Found in
- United States
- Named by
- McDonald et al. 2021
Field notes
About Ornatops
Ornatops was a plant-eating ornithopod that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 84 to 72 million years ago. It belongs to the family Hadrosauridae.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Ornatops, from New Mexico. Its fossils come from the Menefee Formation. It was named by McDonald et al. in 2021.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
80 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Hadrosauridae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: A. T. McDonald, D. G. Wolfe, and E. A. Freedman Fowler, T. A. Gates. 2021. A new brachylophosaurin (Dinosauria: Hadrosauridae) from the Upper Cretaceous Menefee Formation of New Mexico. PeerJ 9:e11084:1-28