Arenysaurus
Name:
Arenysaurus
(Areny lizard).
Phonetic: A-re-ne-sore-us.
Named By: Xabier Pereda-Suberbiola, Jos� Ignacio
Canudo, Pen�lope Cruzado-Caballero, Jos� Luis Barco, Nieves
L�pez-Mart�nez, Oriol Oms & Jos� Ignacio Ruiz-Ome�aca -
2009.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia, Dinosauria,
Ornithischia, Ornithopoda, Hadrosauridae, Lambeosaurinae.
Species: A. ardevoli (type).
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Estimated to be about 5 to 6 meters
long.
Known locations: Spain - Tremp Formation.
Time period: Maastrichtian of the Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Partial skull and skeleton.
Arenysaurus was a late Cretaceous hadrosaurid dinosaur, and of extra significance since it was a lambeosaurine. This means that Arenysaurus had a hollow crest on its head, and lived in a time when lambeosaurine hadrosaurs had been largely replaced by saurolophine hadrosaurs in other parts of the world like in North America.
Further reading
- The last hadrosaurid dinosaurs of Europe: A new lambeosaurine
from the Uppermost Cretaceous of Aren (Huesca, Spain), Xabier
Pereda-Suberbiola, Jos� Ignacio Canudo, Pen�lope
Cruzado-Caballero, Jos� Luis Barco, Nieves L�pez-Mart�nez, Oriol
Oms & Jos� Ignacio Ruiz-Ome�aca - 2009.
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