Jeyawati
hay-ah-WAH-tee /ˌheɪ.əˈwɑː.tiː/
Accepted genus
grinding mouth
- Jeyawati · Zuni · grinding mouth
The name comes from the Zuni language and means "grinding mouth". It refers to the dinosaur's battery of teeth, which were used to grind plant food. It honours the Zuni people, whose traditional lands include the area where the fossils were found. The type species is Jeyawati rugoculus, "wrinkled eye", from the rough, wrinkled bone around the eye socket.
- Named by
- McDonald, Wolfe and Kirkland
- Year named
- 2010
- Period
- Late Cretaceous
- Stage
- Turonian
- Found in
- Moreno Hill Formation, New Mexico, USA
A primitive hadrosauroid (a duck-billed dinosaur relative), related to but not a true hadrosaurid. The only known species is Jeyawati rugoculus.