Orodromeus makelai Horner and Weishampel 1988 (ornithopod)

Reptilia - Ornithischia

Full reference: J. R. Horner and D. B. Weishampel. 1988. A comparative embryological study of two ornithischian dinosaurs. Nature 332:256-257

Belongs to Orodromeus according to M. C. Herne et al. 2018

See also Andrzejewski et al. 2019, Becerra et al. 2016, Bell et al. 2018, Brown et al. 2013, Buchholz 2002, Butler and Sullivan 2009, Butler et al. 2008, Butler and Zhao 2009, Cruzado-Caballero et al. 2019, Dieudonné et al. 2020, Eberth et al. 2001, Fukuda and Obata 1993, Galton 2009, Han et al. 2012, Herne et al. 2019, Horner 1997, Horner et al. 2009, Horner et al. 2001, Horner and Weishampel 1988, Hübner 2016, Moratalla and Powell 1994, Norman et al. 2004, Párraga and Prieto-Márquez 2019, Scheetz 1991, Schweitzer 1997, Sues 1997, Sues and Norman 1990, Trexler 2001, Varricchio et al. 2002, Vianey-Liaud and Crochet 1994, Wang and Zhou 1995, Weishampel et al. 1991, Weishampel and Heinrich 1992 and Zhao and Li 1993

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: MOR 294, a partial skeleton. Its type locality is Egg Mountain, MOR TM-006, which is in a Judithian terrestrial carbonate in the Two Medicine Formation of Montana.

Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore

Average measurements (in mm): femur diameter 6.12, tibia diameter 9.87

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of United States (8: Montana collections)

Total: 8 collections each including a single occurrence

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