Genus

Valid Extinct

Altirhinus

Norman 1998

Altirhinus is a genus of hadrosauroid ornithopod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous period of Mongolia.

Temporal range

Triassic

Jurassic

Cretaceous

Paleogene

Neogene

252 201 145 66 0 Ma

PBDB occurrences

Group

Dinosaures

Herbivore Ground dwelling, gregarious Terrestrial

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skull of iguanodontian Altirhinus kurzanovi © Ghedoghedo · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia

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Classification

Dinosauria Unranked clade

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Ornithischia Unranked clade

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Neornithischia Unranked clade

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Pyrodontia Unranked clade

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Cerapoda Unranked clade

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Ornithopoda Suborder

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Iguanodontia Infraorder

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Euiguanodontia Unranked clade

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Dryomorpha Unranked clade

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Ankylopollexia Unranked clade

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Neoiguanodontia Unranked clade

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Altirhinus Genus

Fossil sites 1 geolocated sites

Distribution

Top countries

🇲🇳 Mongolia

Geological formations

Khuren Dukh

Temporal distribution

Albian (113.2–100.5 Ma)

Species (1)

Altirhinus kurzanovi 110 Ma

Bibliography

Original description

D. B. Norman. 1998. On Asian ornithopods (Dinosauria: Ornithischia). 3. A new species of iguanodontid dinosaur. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 122:291-348 DOI ↗

Bibliography (1)

S. M. Kurzanov. 1976. Noviy pozdnemelovoy karnozavr is Nogon-Tsava, Mongoliya [A new late Mesozoic carnosaur from Nogon-Tsav, Mongolia]. Paleontology and Biostratigraphy of Mongolia. The Joint Soviet-Mongolian Paleontological Expedition, Transactions 3:93-104