Outline: a typical early ornithischian
Nevadadromeus
"Nevada runner"
- Lived
- 101 to 94 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Early ornithischians, Thescelosauridae
- Found in
- United States
- Named by
- Bonde et al. 2022
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
95 million years ago
Field notes
About Nevadadromeus
What it was like
Nevadadromeus was a small plant eater that ran on two legs, related to Orodromeus. It is known from part of the legs and backbone.
Its world
It lived about 101 to 94 million years ago, in the Late Cretaceous, in what is now Nevada. It comes from the Willow Tank Formation.
How it was found
Bonde and colleagues named Nevadadromeus in 2022. It is the first dinosaur named from Nevada.
Close relatives
Other members of Thescelosauridae
Sources: WikidataNamed in: J. W. Bonde, R. L. Hall, and L. J. Krumenacker, D. J. Varricchio. 2022. Nevadadromeus schmitti (gen. et sp. nov.), a new basal neornithischian with affinities to the Thescelosaurinae, from the Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian) Willow Tank Formation of southern Nevada. Journal of the Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science 50(1):1-8