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beaked plant-eater
Blasisaurus
Say it like this: “blah-see-SOR-us”
Blasisaurus canudoi
Blasisaurus ate plants and walked on two or four legs. It lived in the Late Cretaceous. Bones have been found in Spain.
- When
- Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) · roughly 72.2 to 66 million years ago
- Named in
- 2010 · Cruzado-Caballero, P.; Pereda-Suberbiola, X.; Ruiz-Omeñaca, J. I.
- Hip height
- Not established
- Length
- 4.2 m · 14 ft
- Weight
- Not established
- Found in
- Spain · Arén Sandstone
- Food and walking
- Herbivore · Two or four legs
- Kind
- beaked plant-eater · Ornithopod
- Family branch
- Lambeosaurinae
The story in short
Blasisaurus was formally named in 2010 by P. Cruzado-Caballero and colleagues. The name honors a person tied to the fossil or its study.
Fossils referred to Blasisaurus date to the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian), roughly 72.2 to 66 million years ago. Finds come from Spain, including the Arén Sandstone Formation. It was a herbivore and could move on two or four legs.
Published estimates put Blasisaurus at a length near 4.2 m.
On the family tree it sits in Lambeosaurinae, among the ornithopod dinosaurs.