Outline: a typical ornithopod
Jeyawati
"grinding mouth"
- Lived
- 94 to 90 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ornithopods
- Found in
- United States
- Named by
- McDonald et al. 2010
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
90 million years ago
Field notes
About Jeyawati
What it was like
Jeyawati was a plant eater related to the duckbills, with many teeth packed into batteries for grinding plants. It is known from part of a skull. The bone around its eye was rough, which may mean it had a bony brow.
Its world
It lived about 94 to 90 million years ago, in the Late Cretaceous, in what is now New Mexico. It comes from the Moreno Hill Formation, where it shared the land with the therizinosaur Nothronychus, the horned Zuniceratops and the small tyrannosaur Suskityrannus.
How it was found
McDonald and colleagues named Jeyawati in 2010. Its name comes from the language of a local native people.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Hadrosauroidea
Sources: WikidataNamed in: A. T. McDonald, D. G. Wolfe, and J. I. Kirkland. 2010. A new basal hadrosauroid (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) from the Turonian of New Mexico. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30(3):799-812