Altirhinus altih-REYENUHS
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Altirhinus 8 m (26.2 ft) long
as long as 5 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 8 m (26.2 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (125–100.5 Mya)
- Place
- Mongolia
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Altirhinus (; “high nose”) is a genus of hadrosauroid ornithopod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous period of Mongolia.
What we know
- Named by Norman, 1998.
- Body length estimated at about 8 m.
- Fossils found in Mongolia.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Altirhinus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.