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Dinosaur: Rhabdodon priscus
| Length*: | 7.1 m | 23.3 ft |
| Weight*: | 1.6 t | 3,527 lb |
*The largest known specimen
Period
Epoch: Late Cretaceous
Stage: Maastrichtian
Years: 72.1–66 Ma
Details
Status: valid
Author: Matheron
Year: 1869
Distribution
Area: Europe
Country: France, Spain
Region: Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Occitanie, Aragon, Catalonia, Castile and León
Formation: "Lacustrine marls", Marnes Rouges Inferieures, Gres de Saint-Chinian, Argiles et Grès à Reptiles, Gres de Labarre, Arén, Tremp, Unnamed units
Locations
Sources
Material: Many individuals (problematic).
References: Norman, D.B. (2004). Basal Iguanodontia. [w]: David B. Weishampel, Peter Dodson, Halszka Osmólska (red.): "The Dinosauria".Ősi, A., Prondvai, E., Butler, R. & Weishampel, D.B. (2012) Phylogeny, Histology and Inferred Body Size Evolution in a New Rhabdodontid Dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Hungary.Chanthasit, P. (2010). “The ornithopod dinosaur Rhabdodon from the Late Cretaceous of France : anatomy, systematics and paleobiology".
