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beaked plant-eater
Morelladon
Say it like this: “moh-RAY-o-don”
Morelladon beltrani
Morelladon ate plants and walked on two or four legs. It lived in the Early Cretaceous. Bones have been found in Spain.
- When
- Early Cretaceous (Barremian) · roughly 125.8 to 121.4 million years ago
- Named in
- 2015 · Gasulla, J. M.; Escaso, F.; Narváez, I.; Ortega, F.; Sanz, J. L.
- Hip height
- 2.2 m · 7 ft
- Length
- 7.6 m · 25 ft
- Weight
- 1.9 tonnes
- Found in
- Spain · Arcillas de Morella
- Food and walking
- Herbivore · Two or four legs
- Kind
- beaked plant-eater · Ornithopod
- Family branch
- Styracosterna
The story in short
The genus Morelladon dates to 2015, the year J. M. Gasulla and colleagues described it.
It lived in the Early Cretaceous (Barremian), roughly 125.8 to 121.4 million years ago. Finds come from Spain, including the Arcillas de Morella Formation. It was a herbivore and could move on two or four legs.
Published estimates put Morelladon at a length near 7.6 m, hips about 2.2 m high, and a body mass around 1.9 tonnes.
On the family tree it sits in Styracosterna, among the ornithopod dinosaurs.
Close relatives
Bayannurosaurus
Bayannurosaurus perfectus
Early Cretaceous (Aptian) · roughly 121.4 to 113.2 million years ago
Calvarius
Calvarius rapidus
Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) · roughly 72.2 to 66 million years ago
Cedrorestes
Cedrorestes crichtoni
Early Cretaceous (Aptian) · roughly 121.4 to 113.2 million years ago