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beaked plant-eater
Plesiohadros
Say it like this: “PLEH-see-o-HAH-dros”
Plesiohadros djadokhtaensis
Plesiohadros ate plants and walked on two or four legs. It lived in the Late Cretaceous. Bones have been found in Mongolia.
- When
- Late Cretaceous (Campanian) · roughly 83.6 to 72.2 million years ago
- Named in
- 2014 · Tsogtbaatar, K.; Weishampel, D. B.; Evans, D. C.; Watabe, M.
- Hip height
- Not established
- Length
- 8.6 m · 28 ft
- Weight
- Not established
- Found in
- Mongolia · Alagteeg
- Food and walking
- Herbivore · Two or four legs
- Kind
- beaked plant-eater · Ornithopod
- Family branch
- Hadrosauromorpha
The story in short
The genus Plesiohadros dates to 2014, the year K. Tsogtbaatar and colleagues described it. The name means “near to hadrosaurids.”
It lived in the Late Cretaceous (Campanian), roughly 83.6 to 72.2 million years ago. Finds come from Mongolia, including the Alagteeg Formation. It was a herbivore and could move on two or four legs.
Published estimates put Plesiohadros at a length near 8.6 m.
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