Riabininohadros
Riabininohadros was a plant-eating dinosaur that lived near the end of the Age of Dinosaurs. It walked on four legs but could probably stand on two to reach leaves. Its fossils were found in Crimea, a region near the Black Sea.61
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Riabininohadros was first named in 1946 as Orthomerus weberi, but later scientists gave it its own genus in 2015.1
Its fossils were found in marine limestone, meaning the dinosaur's body washed into the sea after death.1
Only a few leg bones have been found, so scientists are not sure exactly what it looked like.1
It lived during the Maastrichtian age, about 72 to 66 million years ago, just before the dinosaurs went extinct.1
Some scientists think Riabininohadros might be a nomen dubium, meaning the fossils are too incomplete to be sure it is a distinct dinosaur.1
Most asked questions about Riabininohadros
?How big was Riabininohadros?
About 2.5 metres (8.2 feet) tall at the hips, based on its thighbone length of about 80 centimetres (31 inches).2
?What did Riabininohadros eat?
It was a plant-eater, eating leaves and other vegetation. Its front limbs were used to grab plants.2
?Is Riabininohadros a dinosaur?
Yes, it is a dinosaur. It is a type of ankylopollexian ornithischian dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous.34
?When did Riabininohadros live?
It lived during the Maastrichtian age, about 72 to 66 million years ago, just before the non-avian dinosaurs went extinct.5
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Myth buster
Myth: Riabininohadros was a hadrosaur (duck-billed dinosaur).
Truth: It is actually an ornithopod more closely related to iguanodonts, not a true hadrosaur.6
For dino experts
- Scientific name
- Riabininohadros
- Named by
- Ulansky 20156
- Group
- Beaked plant-eaters
- Family / clade
- Styracosterna6
- Classification
- Ornithischia > Ornithopoda > Iguanodontia6
- Age of the rocks
- 72 to 66 million years (Maastrichtian)6
- Countries
- Ukraine6
- Fossil records
- 1 in the Paleobiology Database6
- Discovery
- The fossils were found by A. N. Riabinin in 1946 on Mount Besh-Kosh in Crimea. He named the species Orthomerus weberi, but it was later renamed Riabininohadros weberae in 2015.1
- Still debated
- Scientists are not sure if Riabininohadros is a valid genus or if the few bones belong to another dinosaur. Some experts consider it a nomen dubium.1
Where the facts come from
- PBDB Taxon (paleobiodb.org)
- Riabininohadros, a new genus for hadrosaur from Maastrichtian of Crimea, Russia. (dinoweb.narod.ru)
- Π ΡΠ±ΠΈΠ½ΠΈΠ½ΠΎΠ³Π°Π΄ΡΠΎΡ (ru.wikipedia.org)
- RIABININOHADROS β ΠΠΠΠ«Π Π ΠΠ ΠΠΠ― ΠΠ’ΠΠ¦ΠΠ’ΠΠΠΠΠΠΠ ΠΠΠΠΠΠΠΠ Π ORTHOMERUS WEBERAE (ORNITHOPODA, IGUANODONTIA) ΠΠ ΠΠΠΠΠΠΠΠ ΠΠΠΠ ΠΠ Π«ΠΠ (jurassic.ru)
- Riabininohadros (Wikipedia) (Wikipedia)
- Riabininohadros in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): age, places, rock formations, classification.
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