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beaked plant-eater
Ornatops
Say it like this: “or-NAY-tops”
Ornatops incantatus
Ornatops 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 (Campanian) · roughly 83.6 to 72.2 million years ago
- Named in
- 2021 · McDonald, A. T.; Wolfe, D. G.; Freedman Fowler, E. A.; Gates, T. A.
- Hip height
- Not established
- Length
- 9.5 m · 31 ft
- Weight
- Not established
- Found in
- the United States · Menefee
- Food and walking
- Herbivore · Two or four legs
- Kind
- beaked plant-eater · Ornithopod
- Family branch
- Saurolophinae
The story in short
The genus Ornatops dates to 2021, the year A. T. McDonald and colleagues described it. The name means “ornate face.”
Fossils referred to Ornatops date to the Late Cretaceous (Campanian), roughly 83.6 to 72.2 million years ago. Finds come from the United States, including the Menefee Formation. It was a herbivore and could move on two or four legs.
Published estimates put Ornatops at a length near 9.5 m.
On the family tree it sits in Saurolophinae, among the ornithopod dinosaurs.
Close relatives
Acristavus
Acristavus gagslarsoni
Late Cretaceous (Campanian) · roughly 83.6 to 72.2 million years ago
Ahshislesaurus
Ahshislesaurus wimani
Late Cretaceous (Campanian) · roughly 83.6 to 72.2 million years ago
Anasazisaurus
Anasazisaurus horneri
Late Cretaceous (Campanian) · roughly 83.6 to 72.2 million years ago