Plesiohadros
Field photograph to come
Plesiohadros
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- Lived
- 86 to 72 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ornithopods
- Found in
- Mongolia
- Named by
- Tsogtbaatar et al. 2014
Field notes
About Plesiohadros
Plesiohadros was a plant-eating ornithopod that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 86 to 72 million years ago.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Plesiohadros, from Mongolia. Its fossils come from the Alagteeg Formation. It was named by Tsogtbaatar et al. in 2014.
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 Hadrosauroidea.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: K. Tsogtbaatar, D. B. Weishampel, and D. C. Evans, M. Watabe. 2014. A new hadrosaurid (Plesiohadros djadokhtaensis) from the Late Cretaceous Djadokhtan Fauna of southern Mongolia. Hadrosaurs