Secernosaurus
Field photograph to come
Secernosaurus
DV-0257 · type species Secernosaurus koerneri
- Lived
- 72 to 66 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Length
- about 3 m (10 ft)
- Group
- Ornithopods, Hadrosauridae
- Found in
- Argentina
- Named by
- Brett-Surman 1979
Field notes
About Secernosaurus
Secernosaurus 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 Secernosaurus, from Argentina. Its fossils come from the Lago Colhué Huapi Formation. It was named by Brett-Surman in 1979.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
70 million years ago
To scale
How big was Secernosaurus?
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Hadrosauridae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: M . K. Brett-Surman. 1979. Phylogeny and palaeobiogeography of hadrosaurian dinosaurs. Nature 277:560-562