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Thescelosauridae

Albertadromeus

"runner"

Generic ornithopod body-plan outline
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Albertadromeus 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
generic ornithopod body plan, scaled to length — not a silhouette of Albertadromeus
Length
5 m (16.4 ft)
Period
Late Cretaceous (77–76 Mya)
Place
Canada · Alberta, Canada
Food
Herbivore
Clade
Thescelosauridae

Albertadromeus is an extinct genus of orodromine thescelosaurid dinosaur known from the upper part of the Late Cretaceous Oldman Formation (middle Campanian stage) of Alberta, Canada. It contains a single species, Albertadromeus syntarsus.

What we know

  • Named by Brown et al., 2013.
  • Fossils found in Canada and Alberta, Canada.

What we guess

The reconstruction notes for Albertadromeus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.