In Depth
Fossils of Bonapartesaurus were first assigned to the genus Willinakaqe. However a few years after naming Willinakaqe, Palaeontologists came to the conclusion that that genus was based upon the collection of several different kinds of hadrosaur. This included the Paratype material of Willinakaqe which became the genus Bonapartesaurus.
Bonapartesaurus was a medium sized hadrosaur, sharing it’s habitat with a variety of titanosaurs, as well as predatory dinosaurs such as dromaeosaurs and abelisaurs.
Further Reading
- Bonapartesaurus rionegrensis, a new hadrosaurine dinosaur from South America: implications for phylogenetic and biogeographic relations with North America. - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 37(2):e1289381:1-16. - P. Cruzado-Caballero & J. E. Powell - 2017.
