Canardia
Field photograph to come
Canardia
DV-0847
- Lived
- 72 to 66 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ornithopods, Hadrosauridae
- Found in
- France
- Named by
- Prieto-Marquez et al. 2013
Field notes
About Canardia
Canardia 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 2 finds of Canardia, from France. Its fossils come from rocks including the Marnes d'Auzas Formation and the Marno-calcaires jaunes de Gensac Formation. It was named by Prieto-Marquez et al. in 2013.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
70 million years ago
Close relatives
Other members of Hadrosauridae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: A. Prieto-Marquez, F. M. D. Vecchia, and R. Gaete, A. Galobart. 2013. Diversity, relationships, and biogeography of the lambeosaurine dinosaurs from the European archipelago, with description of the new aralosaurin Canardia garonnensis. PLoS One 8(7):e69835:1-44