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Hadrosauridae

Ornatops incantatus

"ornate face"

Generic ornithopod body-plan outline
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Ornatops 9 m (29.5 ft) long
as long as 6 people standing fingertip to fingertip
generic ornithopod body plan, scaled to length — not a silhouette of Ornatops
Length
9 m (29.5 ft)
Period
Late Cretaceous (78 Mya)
Place
United States · Mexico · New Mexico, USA
Food
Herbivore
Clade
Hadrosauridae Dinosauria Ornithischia Cerapoda Ornithopoda Iguanodontia Duck-billed dinosaurs with tooth batteries.

Ornatops (meaning “ornate face”) is a genus of brachylophosaurin saurolophine hadrosaur from the Late Cretaceous Menefee Formation of New Mexico, United States. The genus contains a single species, Ornatops incantatus.

What we know

  • Named by McDonald et al., 2021.
  • Fossils found in United States and Mexico.

What we guess

The reconstruction notes for Ornatops — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.