Eotrachodon (meaning before trachodon) is a genus of hadrosaur that lived 75 million years ago in Alabama. It was around 12 feet tall and weighed about four tons and it lived with unspecified hadrosaurs, ankylosaurs and ornithomimids and the fellow ornithopod Lophorhothon.
| Eotrachodon
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, 86–83.6 Ma | |
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| https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Eotrachodon_maxilla.png/240px-Eotrachodon_maxilla.png | |
| Right premaxilla | |
| Scientific classificationhttps://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr.svg.png | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | †Ornithischia |
| Clade: | †Ornithopoda |
| Family: | †Hadrosauridae |
| Genus: | †Eotrachodon
Prieto-Márquez, Erickson and Ebersole, 2016 |
| Type species | |
| †Eotrachodon orientalis
Prieto-Marquez, Erickson and Ebersole, 2016 | |
It was described in 2016 and was a herbivore.