Galleonosaurus
Galleonosaurus was a small, plant-eating dinosaur that lived in Australia during the Early Cretaceous. It had a beaked mouth and walked on two legs, probably running through ancient forests near the rift between Australia and Antarctica.1
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Galleonosaurus is known from five upper jaw bones (maxillae), and the holotype is the most complete dinosaur upper jaw ever found in Victoria, Australia.1
Scientists used micro-CT scans to see the inside of its jaw, revealing a complex network of nerves and blood vessels.1
It lived between about 125 and 110 million years ago, during the Barremian to Albian ages of the Early Cretaceous.6
Galleonosaurus belonged to a group of dinosaurs called Elasmaria, which were only found on the southern supercontinent Gondwana.61
Its fossils were found in rocks that were once part of a large river system with floodplains, where Galleonosaurus likely roamed.1
The name Galleonosaurus means 'galleon lizard', inspired by the shape of its upper jaw bone that resembles a sailing ship.1

Mees gevraagde vrae oor Galleonosaurus
?How big was Galleonosaurus?
About the size of a wallaby, roughly 1 metre tall. It was a small, two-legged dinosaur.34
?What did Galleonosaurus eat?
It was a plant-eating dinosaur. Its teeth suggest it fed on different plant material than other similar dinosaurs.3
Vir dino-kenners
- Wetenskaplike naam
- Galleonosaurus
- Benoem deur
- Herne et al. 20196
- Groep
- Plantvreters met snawels
- Familie / klade
- Elasmaria6
- Klassifikasie
- Ornithischia > Ornithopoda > Iguanodontia6
- Ouderdom van die rotse
- 126 tot 110 miljoen jaar (Barremian / Albian)6
- Rotsformasies
- Wonthaggi, Eumeralla6
- Lande
- Australië6
- Fossielrekords
- 3 in The Paleobiology Database6
- Ontdekking
- Galleonosaurus was named in 2019 by paleontologist Matthew Herne and colleagues, based on fossils collected from the Flat Rocks site in Victoria, Australia. The species name dorisae honors Doris, a volunteer who helped with fossil hunting.1
- Steeds omstrede
- Scientists are not sure exactly how big Galleonosaurus was, because only jaw bones have been found so far.1
Waar die feite vandaan kom
- New small-bodied ornithopods (Dinosauria, Neornithischia) from the Early Cretaceous Wonthaggi Formation (Strzelecki Group) of the Australian-Antarctic rift system, with revision of Qantassaurus intrepidus Rich and Vickers-Rich, 1999 | Journal of Paleontology | Cambridge Core (cambridge.org)
- Galleonosaurus dorisae | Dinosaur Database by DinoAnimals.com (dinoanimals.com)
- New wallaby-sized dinosaur identified from fossils found along Victorian coast - ABC News (abc.net.au)
- Galleonosaurus dorisae: New dinosaur discovered in Australia (bbc.com)
- Galleonosaurus (en.wikipedia.org)
- Galleonosaurus in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): ouderdom, plekke, rotsformasies, klassifikasie.
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