Plesiohadros Plesiohadros

"near to hadrosaurids"

You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Plesiohadros 5 m (16.4 ft) long
3 people holding hands
Length
5 m (16.4 ft)
Period
Late Cretaceous (80–71 Mya)
Place
Asia · Mongolia · India
Food
Herbivore
Clade
Dinosauria

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.