Plesiohadros

near the stout one (close to the hadrosaurs)

• plesios · Greek · near, close to
• hadros · Greek · stout, bulky

The name combines the Greek "plesios" (near, close to) with "hadros" (stout, bulky), the root used in "hadrosaur". It was chosen because this animal is a close relative of the hadrosaurids, the duck-billed dinosaurs. It is a hadrosauroid ornithopod from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia. The type species is Plesiohadros djadokhtaensis.

Named by

Tsogtbaatar et al.

Year named

2014

Period

Late Cretaceous

Stage

Campanian

Found in

Djadokhta Formation, Ukhaa Tolgod, Mongolia

A valid genus of non-hadrosurid hadrosauroid ornithopod. It is unusual in being a small hadrosauroid from the Djadokhta Formation, a setting usually thought of as arid.