Eotrachodon Eotrachodon
"dawn"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Eotrachodon 9 m (29.5 ft) long
6 people holding hands
- Length
- 9 m (29.5 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (86–83.6 Mya)
- Place
- North America
- Food
- Herbivore
Eotrachodon (meaning “dawn Trachodon”) is a genus of hadrosaurid dinosaur that lived in the Late Cretaceous of eastern North America. The holotype was found in the Mooreville Chalk Formation (Upper Santonian) of Alabama in 2007 and includes a well-preserved skull and partial skeleton, making it a rare find among dinosaurs of Appalachia.
What we know
- Named by Prieto-Márquez, Erickson and Ebersole, 2016.
- Fossils found in North America.