Blasisaurus Blasisaurus

"Etymology TBD"

You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Blasisaurus 9 m (29.5 ft) long
6 people holding hands
Length
9 m (29.5 ft)
Period
Late Cretaceous (66 Mya)
Place
Spain
Food
Herbivore
Clade
Hadrosauridae Dinosauria Ornithischia Cerapoda Ornithopoda Iguanodontia

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.