Arenysaurus

Field photograph to come

DV-0678La Posa Fm., Spain

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

1 find

70 million years ago

Map: C. R. Scotese, PALEOMAP

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