Magnapaulia Magnapaulia

"Etymology TBD"

You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Magnapaulia 13 m (41 ft) long
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Length
13 m (41 ft)
Period
Late Cretaceous (74.7 Mya)
Place
Mexico
Food
Herbivore
Clade
Hadrosauridae Dinosauria Ornithischia Cerapoda Ornithopoda Iguanodontia

Magnapaulia is a genus of herbivorous lambeosaurine hadrosaurid dinosaurs known from the Late Cretaceous (Campanian) El Gallo Formation of Baja California, northwestern Mexico. It contains a single species, Magnapaulia laticaudus, which was first described in 1981 as a possible species of Lambeosaurus by William J. Morris, and was given its own genus in 2012 by Prieto-Márquez and colleagues.

What we know

  • Named by Prieto-Márquez et al., 2012.
  • Body length estimated at about 12.5 m.
  • Fossils found in Mexico.