Outline: a typical ornithopod
Craspedodon
"edge tooth"
Type species Craspedodon lonzeensis
- Lived
- 90 to 84 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ornithopods
- Found in
- Belgium
- Named by
- Dollo 1883
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
90 million years ago
Field notes
About Craspedodon
What it was like
Craspedodon is known from a few teeth. They came from a plant eater, and some scientists have suggested it was a ceratopsian rather than an ornithopod.
Its world
It lived in the Late Cretaceous, in what is now Belgium. It comes from the Glauconie de Lonzée, rocks laid down in a shallow sea.
How it was found
Dollo named Craspedodon in 1883. The type species is Craspedodon lonzeensis.
Close relatives
Other members of Iguanodontoidea
Sources: WikidataNamed in: L. Dollo. 1883. Note sur les restes de dinosauriens rencontrés dans le Crétacé supérieur de la Belgique [Note on the dinosaur remains found in the Upper Cretaceous of Belgium]. Bulletin du Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique 2:205-221