Genus

Valid Extinct

Rhabdodon

Matheron 1869

Etymology Dent cannelée

Rhabdodon is a genus of ornithopod dinosaur that lived in Europe approximately 72-69 million years ago in the Late Cretaceous. The genus contains a single species, R. priscus. It is similar in build to a very robust "hypsilophodont", though all modern phylogenetic analyses find this to be an unnatural grouping, and Rhabdodon to be a basal member of Iguanodontia. It was large amongst its relatives, measuring 4 m (13 ft) long and weighing 250 kg (550 lb), with some specimens possibly reaching up to 6 m (20 ft) long.

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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ラブドドン。白亜紀後期のイグアノドン類。 © ★Kumiko★ · CC BY-SA 2.0 · 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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Rhabdodontomorpha Unranked clade

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Rhabdodontoidea Unranked clade

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Rhabdodontidae Family

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Rhabdodon Genus

Fossil sites 37 geolocated sites

Distribution

Top countries

🇫🇷 France

🇪🇸 Spain

🇦🇹 Austria

🇷🇴 Romania

Geological formations

Grès à Reptiles

Marnes Rouges Inférieures

Grès de Labarre

Vitoria

Grünbach

Figuerola

Sierra Perenchiza

Villalba de la Sierra

Argiles rutilantes

Argiles et Grès à Reptiles

Temporal distribution

Maastrichtian (72.2–66 Ma)

Campanian (83.6–72.2 Ma)

Species (3)

Oligosaurus adelus subjective synonym of Rhabdodon priscus 84 Ma

Ornithomerus gracilis subjective synonym of Rhabdodon priscus 84 Ma

Rhabdodon priscus 84 Ma

Synonyms (2)

Oligosaurus subjective synonym of Rhabdodon

Ornithomerus subjective synonym of Rhabdodon

Images 4

Bibliography

Original description

P. Matheron. 1869. Notice sur les reptiles fossiles des dépôts fluvio-lacustres crétacés du bassin à lignite de Fuveau [Notice on the fossil reptiles from the Cretaceous fluvio-lacustrine deposits of the lignitic Fuveau Basin]. Mémoires de l'Académie des Sciences, Belles-Lettres, et Arts de Marseille 1868–1869:345-379

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