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MORELLADON
(mo-rel-la-don)
meaning: "Morella tooth"
Morelladon
Named By: Jose Miguel Gasulla, Fernando Escaso, Ivan Narvaez, Francisco Ortega & Jose Luis Sanz in 2015
Time Period: Early Cretaceous, 130 Ma
Location: Spain - Arcillas de Morella Formation
Size: Roughly estimated at about 6 meters long
Diet: Herbivore
Fossil(s): Partial post cranial skeleton, mostly of vertebrae but also including partial ribs, sacrum and partial tibia
Classification: | Chordata | Reptilia | Dinosauria | Ornithischia | Ornithopoda |
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Morelladon is an extinct genus of herbivorous styracosternan ornithopod dinosaur, that lived during the Early Cretaceous of Spain, around 130 million years ago.

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