Nevadadromeus

Bonde et al. 2022

Nevadadromeus is an extinct genus of small thescelosaurine ornithischian dinosaur, from the Willow Tank Formation of Nevada, United States. The genus contains a single species, N. schmitti, which represents the first non-avian dinosaur named from Nevada.

Temporal range

Triassic

Jurassic

Cretaceous

Paleogene

Neogene

252 201 145 66 0 Ma

PBDB occurrences

Group

Dinosaures

Herbivore Ground dwelling, gregarious Terrestrial

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Nevadadromeus schmitti, a neornithischian dinosaur. © Raingerr · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia

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Classification

Dinosauria Unranked clade

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Ornithischia Unranked clade

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Neornithischia Unranked clade

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Thescelosauridae Family

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Orodrominae Subfamily

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Nevadadromeus Genus

Fossil sites 1 geolocated sites

Distribution

Top countries

🇺🇸 United States

Geological formations

Willow Tank

Temporal distribution

Cenomanian (100.5–93.9 Ma)

Species (1)

Nevadadromeus schmitti 101 Ma

Images 1

Bibliography

Original description

J. W. Bonde, R. L. Hall, and L. J. Krumenacker, D. J. Varricchio. 2022. Nevadadromeus schmitti (gen. et sp. nov.), a new basal neornithischian with affinities to the Thescelosaurinae, from the Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian) Willow Tank Formation of southern Nevada. Journal of the Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science 50(1):1-8 DOI ↗

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