Macrogryphosaurus
Field photograph to come
Macrogryphosaurus
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- Lived
- 90 to 86 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ornithopods
- Found in
- Argentina
- Named by
- Calvo et al. 2007
Field notes
About Macrogryphosaurus
Macrogryphosaurus was a plant-eating ornithopod that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 90 to 86 million years ago.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Macrogryphosaurus, from Argentina. Its fossils come from the Sierra Barrosa Formation. It was named by Calvo et al. in 2007.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
90 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Elasmaria.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: J. O. Calvo, J. D. Porfiri, and F. E. Novas. 2007. Discovery of a new ornithopod dinosaur from the Portezuelo Formation (Upper Cretaceous), Neuquén, Patagonia, Argentina. Arquivos do Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro 65(4):471-483