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beaked plant-eater
Hypacrosaurus
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Hypacrosaurus altispinus
Hypacrosaurus ate plants and walked on two or four legs. It lived in the Late Cretaceous. Bones have been found in Canada and the United States.
- When
- Late Cretaceous (Campanian · Maastrichtian) · roughly 83.6 to 66 million years ago
- Named in
- 1913 · Brown, B.
- Hip height
- 3.6 m · 12 ft
- Length
- 9.1 m · 30 ft
- Weight
- 4 tonnes
- Found in
- Canada and the United States · Horseshoe Canyon
- Food and walking
- Herbivore · Two or four legs
- Kind
- beaked plant-eater · Ornithopod
- Family branch
- Lambeosaurinae
The story in short
Hypacrosaurus was formally named in 1913 by B. Brown.
It lived in the Late Cretaceous (Campanian · Maastrichtian), roughly 83.6 to 66 million years ago. Finds come from Canada and the United States, including the Horseshoe Canyon Formation. It was a herbivore and could move on two or four legs.
Published estimates put Hypacrosaurus at a length near 9.1 m, hips about 3.6 m high, and a body mass around 4 tonnes.
On the family tree it sits in Lambeosaurinae, among the ornithopod dinosaurs.
This entry is the whole genus. The type species is Hypacrosaurus altispinus. Other named species include Hypacrosaurus stebingeri.
Other species with this name
- Hypacrosaurus altispinus
- Hypacrosaurus stebingeri