Jeyawati
"grinding mouth"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Jeyawati 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (90.9–88.6 Mya)
- Place
- Mexico · New Mexico, USA
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Jeyawati (meaning “grinding mouth” in the Zuni language) is a genus of hadrosauroid dinosaur which lived during the Turonian stage of the Late Cretaceous. The type species, J. rugoculus, was described in 2010, based on fossils recovered in the U.S. state of New Mexico. The holotype, MSM P4166, was discovered in the Moreno Hill Formation.
What we know
- Named by McDonald, Wolfe & Kirkland, 2010.
- Fossils found in Mexico and New Mexico, USA.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Jeyawati — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.