Ampelognathus coheni
"grapevine jaw"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Ampelognathus 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (96 Mya)
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Ampelognathus (meaning “grapevine jaw”) is an extinct genus of possibly rhabdodontomorph ornithopod dinosaurs from the Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) Lewisville Formation of Texas. The type species is Ampelognathus coheni.
What we know
- Named by Tykoski, Contreras & Noto, 2023.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Ampelognathus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.