Osmakasaurus

Field photograph to come

DV-0791Lakota Fm., South Dakota

Osmakasaurus

DV-0791

Lived
126 to 121 million years ago, Early Cretaceous
Diet
Herbivore
Group
Ornithopods
Found in
United States
Named by
McDonald 2011

Field notes

About Osmakasaurus

Osmakasaurus was a plant-eating ornithopod that lived in the Early Cretaceous, 126 to 121 million years ago.

The Paleobiology Database lists 2 finds of Osmakasaurus, from South Dakota. Its fossils come from the Lakota Formation. It was named by McDonald in 2011.

The evidence

Where its fossils were found

Today

2 finds

125 million years ago

Map: C. R. Scotese, PALEOMAP

Lived alongside

Found in the same rock formations.

Close relatives

Other members of Iguanodontia.

Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: A. T. McDonald. 2011. The taxonomy of species assigned to Camptosaurus (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda). Zootaxa 2783:52-68