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beaked plant-eater
Minqaria
Say it like this: “min-kwah-ree-uh”
Minqaria bata
Minqaria ate plants and walked on two or four legs. It lived in the Late Cretaceous. Bones have been found in Morocco.
- When
- Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) · roughly 72.2 to 66 million years ago
- Named in
- 2024 · Longrich, N. R.; Pereda-Suberbiola, X.; Bardet, N.; Jalil, N. E.
- Hip height
- Not established
- Length
- 3.5 m · 11 ft
- Weight
- 250 kg · 551 lb
- Found in
- Morocco · Phosphates of the Oulad Abdoun Basin
- Food and walking
- Herbivore · Two or four legs
- Kind
- beaked plant-eater · Ornithopod
- Family branch
- Lambeosaurinae
The story in short
In 2024, N. R. Longrich and colleagues published the name Minqaria.
Fossils referred to Minqaria date to the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian), roughly 72.2 to 66 million years ago. Finds come from Morocco, including the Phosphates of the Oulad Abdoun Basin Formation. It was a herbivore and could move on two or four legs.
Published estimates put Minqaria at a length near 3.5 m and a body mass around 250 kg.
On the family tree it sits in Lambeosaurinae, among the ornithopod dinosaurs.