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beaked plant-eater
Canardia
Say it like this: “can-AHR-dee-uh”
Canardia garonnensis
Canardia ate plants and walked on two or four legs. It lived in the Late Cretaceous. Bones have been found in France.
- When
- Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) · roughly 72.2 to 66 million years ago
- Named in
- 2013 · Prieto-Márquez, A.; Dalla Vecchia, F. M.; Gaete, R.; Galobart, À.
- Hip height
- Not established
- Length
- 3.8 m · 12 ft
- Weight
- Not established
- Found in
- France · Marnes d'Auzas
- Food and walking
- Herbivore · Two or four legs
- Kind
- beaked plant-eater · Ornithopod
- Family branch
- Lambeosaurinae
The story in short
In 2013, A. Prieto-Márquez and colleagues published the name Canardia.
It lived in the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian), roughly 72.2 to 66 million years ago. Finds come from France, including the Marnes d'Auzas Formation. It was a herbivore and could move on two or four legs.
Published estimates put Canardia at a length near 3.8 m.
On the family tree it sits in Lambeosaurinae, among the ornithopod dinosaurs.