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beaked plant-eater
Choyrodon
Say it like this: “kwa-yuh-row-don”
Choyrodon barsboldi
Choyrodon ate plants and walked on two legs. It lived in the Early Cretaceous. Bones have been found in Mongolia.
- When
- Early Cretaceous (Albian) · roughly 113.2 to 100.5 million years ago
- Named in
- 2018 · Gates, T. A.; Tsogtbaatar, K.; Zanno, L. E.; Chinzorig, T.; Watabe, M.
- Hip height
- Not established
- Length
- Not established
- Weight
- Not established
- Found in
- Mongolia · Khuren Dukh
- Food and walking
- Herbivore · Two legs
- Kind
- beaked plant-eater · Ornithopod
- Family branch
- Hadrosauroidea
The story in short
Choyrodon was formally named in 2018 by T. A. Gates and colleagues. The name honors a person tied to the fossil or its study.
It lived in the Early Cretaceous (Albian), roughly 113.2 to 100.5 million years ago. Finds come from Mongolia, including the Khuren Dukh Formation. It was a herbivore and walked on two legs.
The fossils of Choyrodon are too incomplete for a responsible length, hip height, or weight, so those fields are left blank on purpose.
On the family tree it sits in Hadrosauroidea, among the ornithopod dinosaurs.
Close relatives
Altirhinus
Altirhinus kurzanovi
Early Cretaceous (Albian) · roughly 113.2 to 100.5 million years ago
Batyrosaurus
Batyrosaurus rozhdestvenskyi
Late Cretaceous (Santonian · Campanian) · roughly 85.7 to 72.2 million years ago
Bolong
Bolong yixianensis
Early Cretaceous (Barremian) · roughly 125.8 to 121.4 million years ago