Choyrodon barsboldi Choyrodon
"Etymology TBD"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Choyrodon 5 m (16.4 ft) long
3 people holding hands
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (145–100 Mya)
- Place
- Mongolia
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria
Choyrodon is a genus of hadrosauroid dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous (Albian) Khuren Dukh Formation of Mongolia. The type and only species is Choyrodon barsboldi. The generic name is derived from the city of Choyr, and -odon, from Latin for tooth; the specific name barsboldi honours paleontologist Rinchen Barsbold. The material consists of a holotype partial skull and cervical ribs, with two other partial skulls both with associated postcranial material. It was found to be the sister taxon of Eolambia.
What we know
- Named by Gates et al., 2018.
- Fossils found in Mongolia.