Outline: a typical ornithopod
Gobihadros
"Gobi hadrosaur"
Type species Gobihadros mongoliensis
- Lived
- 101 to 84 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ornithopods
- Found in
- Mongolia
- Named by
- Tsogtbaatar et al. 2019
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
90 million years ago
Field notes
About Gobihadros
What it was like
Gobihadros was a plant eater, an early relative of the duck-billed dinosaurs. It is known from a nearly complete skeleton and skull, and from more than one animal.
It had a duck-like beak and rows of grinding teeth, like later hadrosaurs, but it lacked some of their features.
Its world
It lived in the Late Cretaceous in what is now Mongolia. Its bones come from the Baynshire Formation, where it shared the land with the plant eater Bactrosaurus, the therizinosaurs Segnosaurus and Erlikosaurus and the armored Talarurus.
How it was found
Tsogtbaatar and colleagues named Gobihadros in 2019. Six finds are known.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Hadrosauroidea
Sources: WikidataNamed in: K. Tsogtbaatar, D. B. Weishampel, and D. C. Evans, M. Watabe. 2019. A new hadrosauroid (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) from the Late Cretaceous Baynshire Formation of the Gobi Desert (Mongolia). PLoS ONE 14(4):e0208480:1-47