Rhinorex
Field photograph to come
Rhinorex
DV-0904 · type species Rhinorex condrupus
- Lived
- 84 to 72 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ornithopods, Hadrosauridae
- Found in
- United States
- Named by
- Gates and Scheetz 2014
Field notes
About Rhinorex
Rhinorex 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 Rhinorex, from Utah. Its fossils come from the Nelsen Formation. It was named by Gates and Scheetz in 2014.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
80 million years ago
Close relatives
Other members of Hadrosauridae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: T. A. Gates and R. Scheetz. 2014. A new saurolophine hadrosaurid (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) from the Campanian of Utah, North America. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology