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Hadrosauridae

Kamuysaurus japonicus

"deity"

Generic ornithopod body-plan outline
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Kamuysaurus 7 m (23 ft) long
as long as 4 people standing fingertip to fingertip
generic ornithopod body plan, scaled to length — not a silhouette of Kamuysaurus
Length
7 m (23 ft)
Period
Late Cretaceous (72.1–70.6 Mya)
Place
Japan
Food
Herbivore
Clade
Hadrosauridae Dinosauria Ornithischia Cerapoda Ornithopoda Iguanodontia Duck-billed dinosaurs with tooth batteries.

Kamuysaurus is a genus of herbivorous edmontosaurin saurolophine hadrosaurid dinosaur from Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) marine deposits of the Yezo Group (Hakobuchi Formation) in the Hobetsu area near the town of Mukawa, Hokkaido in Japan.

What we know

  • Named by Kobayashi et al., 2019.
  • Body length estimated at about 7 m.
  • Fossils found in Japan.

What we guess

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