Magnapaulia
Field photograph to come
Magnapaulia
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- Lived
- 84 to 72 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ornithopods, Hadrosauridae
- Found in
- Mexico
- Named by
- Prieto-Marquez et al. 2012
Field notes
About Magnapaulia
Magnapaulia was a plant-eating ornithopod that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 84 to 72 million years ago. It belongs to the family Hadrosauridae.
The Paleobiology Database lists 3 finds of Magnapaulia, from Mexico. Its fossils come from the El Gallo Formation. It was named by Prieto-Marquez et al. in 2012.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
80 million years ago
Close relatives
Other members of Hadrosauridae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: A. Prieto-Marquez, L. M. Chiappe, and S. H. Joshi. 2012. The lambeosaurine dinosaur Magnapaulia laticaudus from the Late Cretaceous of Baja California, northwestern Mexico. PLoS ONE 7(6):e38207:1-32