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beaked plant-eater
Plesiolophus
Plesiolophus warnerensis
Plesiolophus ate plants and walked on two or four legs. It lived in the Late Cretaceous. Bones have been found in Canada.
- When
- Late Cretaceous (Campanian) · roughly 83.6 to 72.2 million years ago
- Named in
- 2026 · McFeeters, B. D.; Evans, D. C.; Ryan, M. J.; Maddin, H. C.
- Hip height
- Not established
- Length
- Not established
- Weight
- Not established
- Found in
- Canada · Oldman
- Food and walking
- Herbivore · Two or four legs
- Kind
- beaked plant-eater · Ornithopod
- Family branch
- Lambeosaurinae
The story in short
In 2026, B. D. McFeeters and colleagues published the name Plesiolophus.
It lived in the Late Cretaceous (Campanian), roughly 83.6 to 72.2 million years ago. Finds come from Canada, including the Oldman Formation. It was a herbivore and could move on two or four legs.
The fossils of Plesiolophus are too incomplete for a responsible length, hip height, or weight, so those fields are left blank on purpose.
On the family tree it sits in Lambeosaurinae, among the ornithopod dinosaurs.