Name:
Plesiohadros.
Phonetic: Ples-e-o-had-ross.
Named By: K. Tsogtbaatar, D. B. Weishampel,
D. C. Evans & M. Watabe - 2014.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia, Dinosauria,
Ornithischia, Ornithopoda, Iguanodontia, Hadrosauroidea,
Hadrosauridae.
Species: P. djadokhtaensis
(type).
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Unavailable.
Known locations: Mongolia - Djadokhta Formation.
Time period: Campanian of the Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Skull and partial post
cranial skeleton.
Plesiohadros is a genus of hadrosaur that lived in Asia during the late Cretaceous.
Further reading
- A new hadrosaurid (Plesiohadros djadokhtaensis) from the Late
Cretaceous Djadokhtan Fauna of southern Mongolia. - Hadrosaurs
108-135. - K. Tsogtbaatar, D. B. Weishampel, D. C.
Evans & M. Watabe - 2014.
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |