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Rhabdodon
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Rhabdodon

Rhabdodon priscus

Era: CretaceousDiet: HerbivorousPeriod: Late CretaceousSize: 4mWeight: 250kg

Rhabdodon (meaning "fluted tooth") is a genus of ornithopod dinosaur that lived in Europe approximately 72-69 million years ago in the Late Cretaceous. The genus contains a single species, R. priscus. It is similar in build to a very robust "hypsilophodont" (non-iguanodont ornithopod), though all modern phylogenetic analyses find this to be an unnatural grouping, and Rhabdodon to be a basal member of Iguanodontia