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
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.