Mochlodon
Mochlodon was a small, plant-eating dinosaur that lived on islands in Europe during the Late Cretaceous. It walked on two legs and had a beak for snipping leaves and stems. This dinosaur was about the size of a large dog!12
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Mochlodon was a rhabdodontid dinosaur, a group of small plant-eaters that lived in Europe.1
Mochlodon lived during the Santonian and Campanian ages, about 85 to 80 million years ago.1
Scientists think Mochlodon was a dwarf dinosaur because it lived on islands and evolved a smaller body size than its mainland relatives.2
The first Mochlodon fossils were discovered in Austria in 1859.1
For many years, scientists were unsure if Mochlodon was a separate genus, but in 2003 it was reinstated as valid.1
Most asked questions about Mochlodon
?How big was Mochlodon?
Mochlodon was about 1.6 to 1.8 metres long (5.2 to 5.9 feet), which is about the size of a small human.2
?What did Mochlodon eat?
Mochlodon was a plant-eater. It had a beak for snipping leaves and stems.1
?When did Mochlodon live?
Mochlodon lived during the Late Cretaceous, about 85 to 80 million years ago.1
?Where was Mochlodon found?
Mochlodon fossils have been found in Austria and Hungary.1
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- Scientific name
- Mochlodon
- Named by
- Seeley 18813
- Group
- Beaked plant-eaters
- Family / clade
- Rhabdodontoidea3
- Classification
- Ornithischia > Ornithopoda > Iguanodontia3
- Age of the rocks
- 86 to 66 million years (Santonian / Maastrichtian)3
- Rock formations
- Csehbánya3
- Countries
- Hungary3
- Fossil records
- 4 in the Paleobiology Database3
- Discovery
- Mochlodon was named by paleontologist Harry Seeley in 1881 based on a jaw bone found in Austria. The first fossils were discovered in 1859 in the Gosau Formation.31
- Still debated
- Some scientists debate whether Mochlodon is a distinct genus or whether its fossils should be placed in the related genus Zalmoxes.12
Where the facts come from
- Mochlodon (en.wikipedia.org)
- Phylogeny, Histology and Inferred Body Size Evolution in a New Rhabdodontid Dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Hungary | PLOS One (journals.plos.org)
- Mochlodon in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): age, places, rock formations, classification.
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