Dinosauria›Ornithischia
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Obelignathus Obelignathus septimanicus (Buffetaut and Le Loeuff 1991)
/ˈoʊblɪɡnˌæθəs/
estimated
Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) · 83.6–66 Mya
Key Statistics
Diet
herbivore
Locomotion
bipedal
inferred from clade
Habitat
ground-dwelling
Social
herding
Where It Was Found
Country
France
Region
Languedoc-Roussillon
Formation
Grès à Reptiles
Dig sites
2
distinct collections
Overview
Obelignathus septimanicus is an ornithopod dinosaur known from the Late Cretaceous, roughly 83.6–66.0 million years ago. It was a herbivore. It is recorded as ground-dwelling and herding. Fossils have been recovered from Languedoc-Roussillon, France. It was named by (Buffetaut and Le Loeuff 1991). 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 Obelignathus septimanicus sits in deep time
Obelignathus
252 Mya201 Mya145 Mya66 Mya
Relationships
Part of a wider fossil web
These species share Obelignathus septimanicus'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.