Plesiohadros

Field photograph to come

DV-0901Alagteeg Fm., Mongolia

Plesiohadros

DV-0901

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

1 find

80 million years ago

Map: C. R. Scotese, PALEOMAP

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