Arenysaurus
Field photograph to come
Arenysaurus
DV-0678
- Lived
- 72 to 66 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ornithopods, Hadrosauridae
- Found in
- Spain
- Named by
- Pereda-Suberbiola et al. 2009
Field notes
About Arenysaurus
Arenysaurus was a plant-eating ornithopod that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 72 to 66 million years ago. It belongs to the family Hadrosauridae.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Arenysaurus, from Spain. Its fossils come from the La Posa Formation. It was named by Pereda-Suberbiola et al. in 2009.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
70 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Hadrosauridae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: X. Pereda-Suberbiola, J. I. Canudo, and P. Cruzado-Caballero, J. L. Barco, N. López-Martínez, O. Oms, J. I. Ruiz-Omeñaca. 2009. The last hadrosaurid dinosaurs of Europe: a new lambeosaurine from the uppermost Cretaceous of Aren (Huesca, Spain). Comptes Rendus Palevol 8:559-572