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beaked plant-eater
Riabininohadros
Say it like this: “ree-ah-BEE-ni-no-HAD-ros”
Riabininohadros weberae
Riabininohadros ate plants and walked on two or four legs. It lived in the Late Cretaceous. Bones have been found in UA.
- When
- Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) · roughly 72.2 to 66 million years ago
- Named in
- 2020 · Lopatin, A. V.; Averianov, A. O.
- Hip height
- Not established
- Length
- 6.6 m · 22 ft
- Weight
- Not established
- Found in
- UA
- Food and walking
- Herbivore · Two or four legs
- Kind
- beaked plant-eater · Ornithopod
- Family branch
- Styracosterna
The story in short
In 2020, A. V. Lopatin and A. O. Averianov published the name Riabininohadros. The name honors a person tied to the fossil or its study.
Fossils referred to Riabininohadros date to the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian), roughly 72.2 to 66 million years ago. Finds come from UA. It was a herbivore and could move on two or four legs.
Published estimates put Riabininohadros at a length near 6.6 m.
On the family tree it sits in Styracosterna, among the ornithopod dinosaurs.
Close relatives
Bayannurosaurus
Bayannurosaurus perfectus
Early Cretaceous (Aptian) · roughly 121.4 to 113.2 million years ago
Calvarius
Calvarius rapidus
Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) · roughly 72.2 to 66 million years ago
Cedrorestes
Cedrorestes crichtoni
Early Cretaceous (Aptian) · roughly 121.4 to 113.2 million years ago