Rhabdodon Rhabdodon
"fluted tooth"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Rhabdodon 6 m (19.7 ft) long
4 people holding hands
- Length
- 6 m (19.7 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (72–69 Mya)
- Place
- Europe · France
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Rhabdodontidae
Rhabdodon (meaning “fluted tooth”) is a genus of ornithopod dinosaur that lived in Europe approximately 72-69 million years ago in the Late Cretaceous. The genus contains a single species, R. priscus. It is similar in build to a very robust “hypsilophodont” (non-iguanodont ornithopod), though all modern phylogenetic analyses find this to be an unnatural grouping, and Rhabdodon to be a basal member of Iguanodontia. It was large amongst its relatives, measuring 4 m long and weighing 250 kg, with some specimens possibly reaching up to 6 m long.
What we know
- Named by Matheron, 1869.
- Body length estimated at about 6 m.
- Fossils found in Europe and France.