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beaked plant-eater
Magnapaulia
Say it like this: “MAG-nuh-POR-lee-uh”
Magnapaulia laticaudus
Magnapaulia ate plants and walked on two or four legs. It lived in the Late Cretaceous. Bones have been found in Mexico.
- When
- Late Cretaceous (Campanian) · roughly 83.6 to 72.2 million years ago
- Named in
- 2012 · Prieto-Márquez, A.; Chiappe, L. M.; Joshi, S. H.
- Hip height
- Not established
- Length
- 12.5–16.5 m · 41–54 ft
- Weight
- 8 tonnes
- Found in
- Mexico · El Gallo
- Food and walking
- Herbivore · Two or four legs
- Kind
- beaked plant-eater · Ornithopod
- Family branch
- Lambeosaurinae
The story in short
In 2012, A. Prieto-Márquez and colleagues published the name Magnapaulia. The name honors a person tied to the fossil or its study.
Fossils referred to Magnapaulia date to the Late Cretaceous (Campanian), roughly 83.6 to 72.2 million years ago. Finds come from Mexico, including the El Gallo Formation. It was a herbivore and could move on two or four legs.
Published estimates put Magnapaulia at a length near 12.5–16.5 m and a body mass around 8 tonnes.
On the family tree it sits in Lambeosaurinae, among the ornithopod dinosaurs.