Orodromeus
Field photograph to come
Orodromeus
DV-0324
- Lived
- 84 to 66 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Length
- about 2 m (7 ft)
- Group
- Early ornithischians, Thescelosauridae
- Found in
- United States
- Named by
- Horner and Weishampel 1988
Field notes
About Orodromeus
Orodromeus was a plant-eating early ornithischian that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 84 to 66 million years ago. It belongs to the family Thescelosauridae.
The Paleobiology Database lists 7 finds of Orodromeus, from Montana. Its fossils come from rocks including the Two Medicine Formation, the Hell Creek Formation and the Judith River Formation. It was named by Horner and Weishampel in 1988.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
75 million years ago
To scale
How big was Orodromeus?
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Thescelosauridae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: J. R. Horner and D. B. Weishampel. 1988. A comparative embryological study of two ornithischian dinosaurs. Nature 332:256-257