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Hadrosauridae

Bonapartesaurus

"Bonaparte"

Generic ornithopod body-plan outline
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Bonapartesaurus 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 Bonapartesaurus
Length
9 m (29.5 ft)
Period
Late Cretaceous (80–66 Mya)
Place
Argentina
Food
Herbivore
Clade
Hadrosauridae Dinosauria Ornithischia Cerapoda Ornithopoda Iguanodontia Duck-billed dinosaurs with tooth batteries.
Bonapartesaurus reconstruction by ABelov2014
Reconstruction · ABelov2014 (CC-BY)

Bonapartesaurus (meaning “Bonaparte’s lizard”, named after José Bonaparte) is an extinct genus of herbivorous ornithopod dinosaur belonging to Hadrosauridae, which lived in the area of modern Argentina during the Campanian and Maastrichtian stages of the Late Cretaceous.

What we know

  • Named by Cruzado-Caballero & Powell 2017.
  • Fossils found in Argentina.

What we guess

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