Dinosauria›Ornithischia
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Choyrodon Choyrodon barsboldi Gates et al. 2018
/tʃˈɔɪɹɑːdən/
estimated
Early Cretaceous (Albian) · 110.1–100.5 Mya
Key Statistics
Diet
herbivore
Locomotion
bipedal
inferred from clade
Habitat
ground-dwelling
Social
herding
Where It Was Found
Country
Mongolia
Region
Dornogov
Formation
Khuren Dukh
Dig sites
2
distinct collections
Overview
Choyrodon barsboldi is an ornithopod dinosaur known from the Early Cretaceous, roughly 110.1–100.5 million years ago. It was a herbivore. It is recorded as ground-dwelling and herding. Fossils have been recovered from Dornogov, Mongolia. It was named by Gates et al. 2018. The species is represented by 2 recorded occurrences in the Paleobiology Database.
Fossil Record Completeness
How much of this profile is grounded in the fossil record
~8%
confidence from occurrence count
Based on 2 recorded occurrences in the Paleobiology Database.
Geologic Time
Where Choyrodon barsboldi sits in deep time
Choyrodon
252 Mya201 Mya145 Mya66 Mya
Relationships
Part of a wider fossil web
These species share Choyrodon barsboldi's place in deep time — computed from overlapping age ranges, shared clades, and inferred ecology. Predator–prey pairs additionally have to have been dug up in the same place.