Outline: a typical early ornithischian
Albertadromeus
"Alberta runner"
- Lived
- 84 to 72 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Early ornithischians, Thescelosauridae
- Found in
- United States
- Named by
- Brown et al. 2013
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
80 million years ago
Field notes
About Albertadromeus
What it was like
Albertadromeus was a very small plant eater, about the size of a turkey, that ran on long hind legs. It is known from leg bones and part of the tail.
Its world
It lived in the Late Cretaceous, in what is now Alberta, Canada. It comes from the Oldman Formation, where it shared the land with the tyrannosaurs Gorgosaurus and Daspletosaurus. Small, fast plant eaters like it were probably common prey.
How it was found
Brown and colleagues named Albertadromeus in 2013.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Thescelosauridae
Sources: WikidataNamed in: C. M. Brown, D. C. Evans, and M. J. Ryan, A. P. Russell. 2013. New data on the diversity and abundance of small-bodied ornithopods (Dinosauria, Ornithischia) from the Belly River Group (Campanian) of Alberta. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 33(3):495-520