Dinosauria›Ornithischia
Protohadros Protohadros byrdi Head 1998
/pɹˌoʊɾoʊhˈædɹoʊz/
estimated
Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) · 100.5–93.9 Mya
Key Statistics
Diet
herbivore
Locomotion
bipedal
inferred from clade
Habitat
ground-dwelling
Social
herding
Where It Was Found
Country
United States
Region
Texas
Formation
Lewisville
Dig sites
2
distinct collections
Overview
Protohadros byrdi is an ornithopod dinosaur known from the Late Cretaceous, roughly 100.5–93.9 million years ago. It was a herbivore. It is recorded as ground-dwelling and herding. Fossils have been recovered from Texas, United States. It was named by Head 1998. 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 Protohadros byrdi sits in deep time
Protohadros
252 Mya201 Mya145 Mya66 Mya
Relationships
Part of a wider fossil web
These species share Protohadros byrdi'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.