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Hadrosauridae

Koutalisaurus kohlerorum

"spoon lizard"

Generic ornithopod body-plan outline
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Koutalisaurus 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 Koutalisaurus
Length
9 m (29.5 ft)
Period
Late Cretaceous (67.5–66 Mya)
Place
Spain
Food
Herbivore
Clade
Hadrosauridae Dinosauria Ornithischia Cerapoda Ornithopoda Iguanodontia Duck-billed dinosaurs with tooth batteries.

Koutalisaurus (meaning “spoon lizard”, in reference to the shape of the dentary) is a potentially dubious genus of lambeosaurine hadrosaurid dinosaur based on a mostly complete dentary recovered from the Maastrichtian-aged (Late Cretaceous) Tremp Formation near the town of Abella de la Conca, Lleida, Spain.

What we know

  • Named by Prieto-Márquez et al., 2006.
  • Fossils found in Spain.

What we guess

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