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beaked plant-eater
Rhabdodon
Say it like this: “RAB-do-don”
Rhabdodon priscus
Rhabdodon ate plants and walked on two legs. It lived in the Late Cretaceous. Bones have been found in France.
- When
- Late Cretaceous (Campanian · Maastrichtian) · roughly 83.6 to 66 million years ago
- Named in
- 1869 · Matheron, P.
- Hip height
- Not established
- Length
- 4–6 m · 13–20 ft
- Weight
- 250 kg · 551 lb
- Found in
- France
- Food and walking
- Herbivore · Two legs
- Kind
- beaked plant-eater · Ornithopod
- Family branch
- Rhabdodontidae
The story in short
The genus Rhabdodon dates to 1869, the year P. Matheron described it. The name means “fluted tooth.”
It lived in the Late Cretaceous (Campanian · Maastrichtian), roughly 83.6 to 66 million years ago. Finds come from France. It was a herbivore and walked on two legs.
Published estimates put Rhabdodon at a length near 4–6 m and a body mass around 250 kg.
On the family tree it sits in Rhabdodontidae, among the ornithopod dinosaurs.
Close relatives
Matheronodon
Matheronodon provincialis
Late Cretaceous (Campanian) · roughly 83.6 to 72.2 million years ago
Mochlodon
Mochlodon suessi
Late Cretaceous (Santonian · Campanian) · roughly 85.7 to 72.2 million years ago
Pareisactus
Pareisactus evrostos
Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) · roughly 72.2 to 66 million years ago