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beaked plant-eater
Jeyawati
Say it like this: “HEY-a-WAH-tee”
Jeyawati rugoculus
Jeyawati ate plants and walked on two or four legs. It lived in the Late Cretaceous. Bones have been found in the United States.
- When
- Late Cretaceous (Turonian) · roughly 93.9 to 89.8 million years ago
- Named in
- 2010 · McDonald, A. T.; Wolfe, D. G.; Kirkland, J. I.
- Hip height
- 1.3 m · 4 ft
- Length
- 4.4 m · 14 ft
- Weight
- 370 kg · 816 lb
- Found in
- the United States · Moreno Hill
- Food and walking
- Herbivore · Two or four legs
- Kind
- beaked plant-eater · Ornithopod
- Family branch
- Hadrosauromorpha
The story in short
In 2010, A. T. McDonald and colleagues published the name Jeyawati. The name means “grinding mouth.”
Fossils referred to Jeyawati date to the Late Cretaceous (Turonian), roughly 93.9 to 89.8 million years ago. Finds come from the United States, including the Moreno Hill Formation. It was a herbivore and could move on two or four legs.
Published estimates put Jeyawati at a length near 4.4 m, hips about 1.3 m high, and a body mass around 370 kg.
On the family tree it sits in Hadrosauromorpha, among the ornithopod dinosaurs.
Close relatives
Bactrosaurus
Bactrosaurus johnsoni
Late Cretaceous (Campanian) · roughly 83.6 to 72.2 million years ago
Claosaurus
Claosaurus agilis
Late Cretaceous (Coniacian · Santonian) · roughly 89.8 to 83.6 million years ago
Eolambia
Eolambia caroljonesa
Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) · roughly 100.5 to 93.9 million years ago