Blasisaurus
Field photograph to come
Blasisaurus
DV-0725
- Lived
- 72 to 66 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ornithopods, Hadrosauridae
- Found in
- Spain
- Named by
- Cruzado-Caballero et al. 2010
Field notes
About Blasisaurus
Blasisaurus 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 Blasisaurus, from Spain. Its fossils come from the Arén Formation. It was named by Cruzado-Caballero et al. in 2010.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
70 million years ago
Close relatives
Other members of Hadrosauridae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: P. Cruzado-Caballero, X. Pereda-Suberbiola, and J. I. Ruiz-Omeñaca. 2010. Blasisaurus canudoi gen. et sp. nov., a new lambeosaurine dinosaur (Hadrosauridae) from the latest Cretaceous of Arén (Huesca, Spain). Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 47:1507-1517