Bonapartesaurus
Field photograph to come
Bonapartesaurus
DV-0975
- Lived
- 72 to 66 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ornithopods, Hadrosauridae
- Found in
- Argentina
- Named by
- Cruzado-Caballero and Powell 2017
Field notes
About Bonapartesaurus
Bonapartesaurus 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 Bonapartesaurus, from Argentina. Its fossils come from the Allen Formation. It was named by Cruzado-Caballero and Powell in 2017.
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: P. Cruzado-Caballero and J. E. Powell. 2017. Bonapartesaurus rionegrensis, a new hadrosaurine dinosaur from South America: implications for phylogenetic and biogeographic relations with North America. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 37(2):e1289381:1-16