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Hadrosauridae

Magnapaulia

Generic ornithopod body-plan outline
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Magnapaulia 13 m (41 ft) long
as long as 8 people standing fingertip to fingertip
generic ornithopod body plan, scaled to length — not a silhouette of Magnapaulia
Length
13 m (41 ft)
Period
Late Cretaceous (74.7 Mya)
Place
Mexico
Food
Herbivore
Clade
Hadrosauridae Dinosauria Ornithischia Cerapoda Ornithopoda Iguanodontia Duck-billed dinosaurs with tooth batteries.
Magnapaulia reconstruction by Creator:Dmitry Bogdanov, Modified to match skeletal remains and phylogenetic pla
Reconstruction · Creator:Dmitry Bogdanov, Modified to match skeletal remains and phylogenetic pla (CC-BY)

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.

What we guess

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