Minqaria

DV-1250 · type species Minqaria bata

Lived: 72 to 66 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
Diet: Herbivore
Group: Ornithopods, Hadrosauridae
Found in: Morocco
Named by: Longrich et al. 2024

Field notes

About Minqaria

Minqaria 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 Minqaria, from Morocco. Its fossils come from the Couche III Formation. It was named by Longrich et al. in 2024.

The evidence

Where its fossils were found

Today

1 find

70 million years ago

Map: C. R. Scotese, PALEOMAP

Lived alongside

Found in the same rock formations.

Close relatives

Other members of Hadrosauridae.

Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: N. Longrich, X. Pereda-Suberbiola, and N. Bardet, N.-E. Jalil. 2024. A new small duckbilled dinosaur (Hadrosauridae: Lambeosaurinae) from Morocco and dinosaur diversity in the late Maastrichtian of North Africa. Scientific Reports 14:3665:1-16