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beaked plant-eater
Magnamanus
Say it like this: “MAG-na-MAN-us”
Magnamanus soriaensis
Magnamanus ate plants and walked on two or four legs. It lived in the Early Cretaceous. Bones have been found in Spain.
- When
- Early Cretaceous (Hauterivian · Barremian) · roughly 132.6 to 121.4 million years ago
- Named in
- 2016 · Fuentes Vidarte, C.; Meijide Calvo, M.; Meijide Fuentes, F.; Meijide Fuentes, M.
- Hip height
- Not established
- Length
- 9–10 m · 30–33 ft
- Weight
- 3 tonnes
- Found in
- Spain · Golmayo
- Food and walking
- Herbivore · Two or four legs
- Kind
- beaked plant-eater · Ornithopod
- Family branch
- Styracosterna
The story in short
In 2016, C. Fuentes Vidarte and colleagues published the name Magnamanus. The name means “large hand.”
Fossils referred to Magnamanus date to the Early Cretaceous (Hauterivian · Barremian), roughly 132.6 to 121.4 million years ago. Finds come from Spain, including the Golmayo Formation. It was a herbivore and could move on two or four legs.
Published estimates put Magnamanus at a length near 9–10 m and a body mass around 3 tonnes.
On the family tree it sits in Styracosterna, among the ornithopod dinosaurs.
Close relatives
Bayannurosaurus
Bayannurosaurus perfectus
Early Cretaceous (Aptian) · roughly 121.4 to 113.2 million years ago
Calvarius
Calvarius rapidus
Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) · roughly 72.2 to 66 million years ago
Cedrorestes
Cedrorestes crichtoni
Early Cretaceous (Aptian) · roughly 121.4 to 113.2 million years ago