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Dinosaur: Plesiohadros djadokhtaensis
| Length*: | 8.6 m | 28.2 ft |
| Weight*: | 3.4 t | 7,496 lb |
*The largest known specimen
Period
Epoch: Late Cretaceous
Stage: Late Campanian
Years: 83.6–72.1 Ma
Details
Status: valid
Author: Tsogtbaatar et al.
Year: 2014
Distribution
Area: Asia
Country: Mongolia
Region: Ömnögovi
Formation: Djadokhta
Locations
Sources
Material: Partial skull, lower jaw, cervical vertebra, hyoid, metacarpals and phalanges. Referred fragmentary tibia and fibula, astragalus, metatarsals, phalanges.
References: Khishigjav Tsogtbaatar; David Weishampel; David C. Evans & Mahito Watabe (2014). "A new hadrosauroid (Plesiohadros djadokhtaensis) from the Late Cretaceous Djadokhtan fauna of southern Mongolia".
