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.