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Hadrosauridae

Blasisaurus

Generic ornithopod body-plan outline
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Blasisaurus 9 m (29.5 ft) long
as long as 6 people standing fingertip to fingertip
generic ornithopod body plan, scaled to length — not a silhouette of Blasisaurus
Length
9 m (29.5 ft)
Period
Late Cretaceous (66 Mya)
Place
Spain
Food
Herbivore
Clade
Hadrosauridae Dinosauria Ornithischia Cerapoda Ornithopoda Iguanodontia Duck-billed dinosaurs with tooth batteries.

Blasisaurus is a genus of lambeosaurine hadrosaurid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous. It is known from a partial skull and skeleton found in late Maastrichtian-age rocks of Spain. The type species is Blasisaurus canudoi, described in 2010 by Penélope Cruzado-Caballero, Xabier Pereda-Suberbiola and José Ignacio Ruiz-Omeñaca, a group of researchers from Spain.

What we know

  • Named by Cruzado-Caballero et al., 2010.
  • Fossils found in Spain.

What we guess

The reconstruction notes for Blasisaurus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.