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beaked plant-eater
Pararhabdodon
Say it like this: “PAR-a-RAB-do-don”
Pararhabdodon isonensis
Pararhabdodon ate plants and walked on two or four legs. It lived in the Late Cretaceous. Bones have been found in Spain.
- When
- Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) · roughly 72.2 to 66 million years ago
- Named in
- 1993 · Casanovas-Cladellas, M. L.; Santafé-Llopis, J. V.; Isidro-Llorens, A.
- Hip height
- Not established
- Length
- 6–9 m · 20–30 ft
- Weight
- Not established
- Found in
- Spain · Talarn
- Food and walking
- Herbivore · Two or four legs
- Kind
- beaked plant-eater · Ornithopod
- Family branch
- Lambeosaurinae
The story in short
The genus Pararhabdodon dates to 1993, the year M. L. Casanovas-Cladellas and colleagues described it. The name means “fluted tooth.”
It lived in the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian), roughly 72.2 to 66 million years ago. Finds come from Spain, including the Talarn Formation. It was a herbivore and could move on two or four legs.
Published estimates put Pararhabdodon at a length near 6–9 m.
On the family tree it sits in Lambeosaurinae, among the ornithopod dinosaurs.