Burianosaurus
Burianosaurus was a small, plant-eating dinosaur that lived in what is now the Czech Republic during the Late Cretaceous. It is the first dinosaur ever named from that country, and scientists know it from a single thigh bone.14
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Burianosaurus is the first validly named dinosaur from the Czech Republic.1
Its name honors the famous Czech paleoartist Zdeněk Burian, who painted many prehistoric animals.1
Scientists studied the bone's internal structure and found it came from a young adult.2
Burianosaurus lived about 100 to 94 million years ago during the Cenomanian stage of the Late Cretaceous.4
It was a basal ornithopod, meaning it was an early relative of bigger plant-eaters like Iguanodon.2
Most asked questions about Burianosaurus
?What did Burianosaurus eat?
It was a plant-eating dinosaur, a ground-dwelling herbivore. It likely ate plants like ferns and leaves.41
?How big was Burianosaurus?
Scientists don't know its exact size because only a thigh bone has been found. It was a small dinosaur, but no exact measurements are given in the sources.1
?When did Burianosaurus live?
It lived during the Cenomanian stage of the Late Cretaceous, about 100 to 94 million years ago.1
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- Scientific name
- Burianosaurus
- Named by
- Madzia et al. 20184
- Group
- Beaked plant-eaters
- Family / clade
- Ornithopoda4
- Classification
- Ornithischia > Ornithopoda4
- Age of the rocks
- 100 to 94 million years (Cenomanian)4
- Rock formations
- Peruc-Korycany4
- Countries
- Czechia4
- Fossil records
- 1 in the Paleobiology Database4
- Discovery
- The fossil was discovered in 2003 in the Peruc-Korycany Formation of the Czech Republic. It was first described in 2005 as possibly an iguanodont, and then named Burianosaurus augustai by Daniel Madzia and colleagues in 2017.14
- Still debated
- Scientists are not sure exactly how Burianosaurus is related to other ornithopods, because its skeleton is incomplete.2
Where the facts come from
- Burianosaurus (en.wikipedia.org)
- A basal ornithopod dinosaur from the Cenomanian of the Czech Republic: Journal of Systematic Palaeontology: Vol 16 , No 11 - Get Access (tandfonline.com)
- Burianosaurus augustai (cs.wikipedia.org)
- Burianosaurus in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): age, places, rock formations, classification.
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