Gobihadros
Name:
Gobihadros
(Gobi hadrosaur).
Phonetic: Go-be-had-ros.
Named By: Khishigjav Tsogtbaatar, David B.
Weishampel, David C. Evans & Mahito Watabe - 2019.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia, Dinosauria,
Ornithischia, Ornithopoda, Hadrosauromorpha.
Species: G. mongoliensis
(type).
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Larger individuals possibly up to 7.5
meters long.
Known locations: Mongolia - Bayan Shireh
Formation.
Time period: Cenomanian/Santonian of the
Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Skulls and almost complete
post cranial skeleton. Fossils from several individuals of various
sizes known.
Gobihadros
is a genus of hadrosauroid dinosaur known to have lived in central Asia
during the earlier stages of the late Cretaceous. Known from numerous
fossils from several individuals of varying ages and sizes, and some
of these articulated, Gobihadros is one of the
best preserved
hadrosaurs from Asia.
Further reading
- A new hadrosauroid (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) from the Late
Cretaceous Baynshire Formation of the Gobi Desert (Mongolia). -
PLoS ONE. 14 (4): - Khishigjav Tsogtbaatar, David B.
Weishampel, David C. Evans & Mahito Watabe - 2019.
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