Subfamily
Valid Extinct

Orodrominae

Brown et al. 2013

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Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
31
Group
Dinosaures
Herbivore Ground dwelling, gregarious Terrestrial
Orodrominae
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A Thescelosaurus at the Burpee Museum of Natural History in Rockford, Illinois, USA. Size:12 feet in length, 3 ft tall at the hip Weight: 670 lbs when alive. © Ben Jacobson (Kranar Drogin) · CC BY 2.5 · Wikimedia
PBDB
Classification
Dinosauria Unranked clade
Ornithischia Unranked clade
Neornithischia Unranked clade
Thescelosauridae Family
Orodrominae Subfamily
Fossil sites 31 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇺🇸 United States
24
🇲🇳 Mongolia
2
🇰🇷 South Korea
2
🇨🇦 Canada
2
🇨🇳 China
1
Geological formations
Wayan
8
Oldman
3
Seonso Conglomerate
2
Liangtoutang
1
Blackleaf
1
Willow Tank
1
Javkhlant
1
Temporal distribution
Maastrichtian (72.2–66 Ma)
1
Campanian (83.6–72.2 Ma)
15
Cenomanian (100.5–93.9 Ma)
9
Albian (113.2–100.5 Ma)
6
Images 1
Bibliography
Original description
C. M. Brown, D. C. Evans, and M. J. Ryan, A. P. Russell. 2013. New data on the diversity and abundance of small-bodied ornithopods (Dinosauria, Ornithischia) from the Belly River Group (Campanian) of Alberta. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 33(3):495-520 DOI ↗
Bibliography (15)
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