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beaked plant-eater
Uteodon
Uteodon aphanoecetes
Uteodon ate plants and walked on two or four legs. It lived in the Late Jurassic. Bones have been found in the United States.
- When
- Late Jurassic (Tithonian) · roughly 149.2 to 143.1 million years ago
- Named in
- 2011 · McDonald, A. T.
- Hip height
- Not established
- Length
- Not established
- Weight
- Not established
- Found in
- the United States · Morrison
- Food and walking
- Herbivore · Two or four legs
- Kind
- beaked plant-eater · Ornithopod
- Family branch
- Ankylopollexia
The story in short
Uteodon was formally named in 2011 by A. T. McDonald. The name means “ute tooth.”
Fossils referred to Uteodon date to the Late Jurassic (Tithonian), roughly 149.2 to 143.1 million years ago. Finds come from the United States, including the Morrison Formation. It was a herbivore and could move on two or four legs.
The fossils of Uteodon 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 Ankylopollexia, among the ornithopod dinosaurs.
Close relatives
Camptosaurus
Camptosaurus dispar
Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian) · roughly 154.8 to 149.2 million years ago
Osmakasaurus
Osmakasaurus depressus
Early Cretaceous (Berriasian · Valanginian) · roughly 143.1 to 132.6 million years ago
Owenodon
Owenodon hoggii
Early Cretaceous (Berriasian) · roughly 143.1 to 137.1 million years ago