Obelignathus
"Obelix jaw"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Obelignathus 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (100–66 Mya)
- Place
- France
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Obelignathus (meaning “Obelix jaw”) is an extinct genus of rhabdodontomorph ornithopod dinosaurs from the Late Cretaceous ‘Grès à Reptiles’ Formation of France. The genus contains a single species, O. septimanicus, known from a right dentary. The species was initially classified as a species of the coeval Rhabdodon.
What we know
- Named by Czepiński & Madzia, 2025.
- Fossils found in France.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Obelignathus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.