Claosaurus agilis klayuh-SƆːRUHS
"broken"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Claosaurus 3.7 m (12.1 ft) long
3 people holding hands
- Length
- 3.7 m (12.1 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (87–82 Mya)
- Place
- North America
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria
Claosaurus ( ; Greek κλάω, klao meaning ‘broken’ and σαῦρος, sauros meaning ‘lizard’; “broken lizard”, referring to the odd position of the fossils when discovered) is a genus of hadrosauroid dinosaur that lived during the Late Cretaceous Period (Santonian-Campanian) of what is now North America. The type and only known valid species is Claosaurus agilis. Traditionally classified as an early member of the family Hadrosauridae, a 2008 analysis found Claosaurus to be outside of the clade containing Hadrosaurus and other hadrosaurids, making it the closest non-hadrosaurid relative of true hadrosaurids within the clade Hadrosauromorpha.
What we know
- Named by Marsh, 1890.
- Body length estimated at about 3.7 m.
- Fossils found in North America.