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beaked plant-eater
Angulomastacator
Say it like this: “an-GOO-lo-MASS-ta-CAH-tor”
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Angulomastacator ate plants and walked on two or four legs. It lived in the Late Cretaceous. Bones have been found in the United States.
- When
- Late Cretaceous (Campanian) · roughly 83.6 to 72.2 million years ago
- Named in
- 2009 · Wagner, J. R.; Lehman, T. M.
- Hip height
- Not established
- Length
- 7 m · 23 ft
- Weight
- Not established
- Found in
- the United States · Aguja
- Food and walking
- Herbivore · Two or four legs
- Kind
- beaked plant-eater · Ornithopod
- Family branch
- Lambeosaurinae
The story in short
Angulomastacator was formally named in 2009 by J. R. Wagner and T. M. Lehman. The name means “bend chewer.”
It lived in the Late Cretaceous (Campanian), roughly 83.6 to 72.2 million years ago. Finds come from the United States, including the Aguja Formation. It was a herbivore and could move on two or four legs.
Published estimates put Angulomastacator at a length near 7 m.
On the family tree it sits in Lambeosaurinae, among the ornithopod dinosaurs.