Outline: a typical ornithopod
Siamodon
"Siam tooth"
- Lived
- 121 to 113 million years ago, Early Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ornithopods
- Found in
- Thailand
- Named by
- Buffetaut and Suteethorn 2011
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
115 million years ago
Field notes
About Siamodon
What it was like
Siamodon was a plant eater related to Iguanodon, known from an upper jaw bone and a braincase.
Its world
It lived in the Early Cretaceous in what is now Thailand. Its bones come from the Khok Kruat Formation, where it shared the land with the predator Siamraptor, the plant eaters Sirindhorna and Ratchasimasaurus and the small horned Psittacosaurus.
How it was found
Buffetaut and Suteethorn named it in 2011.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Hadrosauriformes
Sources: WikidataNamed in: E. Buffetaut and V. Suteethorn. 2011. A new iguanodontian dinosaur from the Khok Kruat Formation (Early Cretaceous, Aptian) of northeastern Thailand. Annales de Paléontologie 97:51-62