Name: Choyrodon
(Choyr tooth).
Phonetic: Choy-r-o-don.
Named By: Terry A. Gates, Khishigjav
Tsogtbaatar, Lindsay E. Zanno, Tsogtbaatar Chinzorig, Mahito
Watabe - 2018.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia, Dinosauria,
Ornithischia, Ornithopoda, Hadrosauriformes, Hadrosauroidea.
Species: C. barsboldi
(type).
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Skull roughly about 59 centimetres long.
Known locations: Mongolia - Khuren Dukh
Formation.
Time period: Albian of the Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Partial skulls. Some
cervical ribs.
Choyrodon
is a genus of hadrosaur
that lived in Asia during the early
Cretaceous.
Further reading
- A new iguanodontian
(Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) from the Early Cretaceous of
Mongolia". PeerJ. 6. - Terry A. Gates, Khishigjav
Tsogtbaatar, Lindsay E. Zanno, Tsogtbaatar Chinzorig, Mahito
Watabe - 2018.