Plesiohadros
"near to hadrosaurids"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Plesiohadros 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (80–71 Mya)
- Place
- Asia · Mongolia · India
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Plesiohadros (meaning “near to hadrosaurids”) is an extinct genus of hadrosauroid dinosaur. It is known from a partial skeleton including the skull collected at Alag Teg locality, from the Campanian Alagteeg Formation of southern Mongolia. The type species is Plesiohadros djadokhtaensis.
What we know
- Named by Tsogtbaatar et al., 2014.
- Fossils found in Asia and Mongolia.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Plesiohadros — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.