Dinosaurs · Large ornithopod

Rhabdodon

Say it RAB-doh-don. The name means ‘rod tooth’.

Rhabdodon beside a person 1.75 m tall. Ticks mark every metre.Body shape drawn for this site, showing the general build of large ornithopods

Length: 4 m
Diet: Plant-eater
When: Late Cretaceous76 to 70 million years ago
Fossils found in: Austria, France, Romania, Spain
Named by: Matherton (1869)
Family tree: Dinosauria › Ornithischia › Ornithopoda › Euornithopoda › Iguanadontia › Rhabdodontidae

Where Rhabdodon sits in the age of dinosaurs.Periods from the ICS chart; dinosaur dates from the Natural History Museum

Large ornithopods. Big plant-eaters that walked on two or four legs, including the duck-billed dinosaurs. See all 36

Lived at the same time

Telmatosaurus · same country
Pyroraptor · same country
Ampelosaurus · same country
Magyarosaurus · same country
Struthiosaurus · same country
Achelousaurus
Alectrosaurus
Anserimimus

Other large ornithopods

Corythosaurus Late Cretaceous
Edmontosaurus Late Cretaceous
Gilmoreosaurus Late Cretaceous
Lambeosaurus Late Cretaceous
Parasaurolophus Late Cretaceous
Prosaurolophus Late Cretaceous
Hadrosaurus Late Cretaceous
Kritosaurus Late Cretaceous

Source: Rhabdodon in the Natural History Museum Dino Directory, read 12 November 2026. Sizes are the museum's estimates for a typical adult. "Lived at the same time" lists dinosaurs whose dates overlap, which does not always mean they met.