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Canardia

Say it: ka-NAR-dee-ah

Name means: “duck”1

Ate: PlantsDuck-billsLate Cretaceous

Canardia was a duck-billed dinosaur that lived on an island that is now France and Spain. It was one of the last non-bird dinosaurs to walk the Earth before they all went extinct.1

Lived

72 to 66 million years ago3

Late Cretaceous

Fossils found in

Haute-Garonne department, southwestern France1

Food

Plants3

Length

3.8 m2

largest known specimen

Weight

270 kg2

largest known specimen

When did it live?

Triassic

Jurassic

Cretaceous

252 million years ago20114566, the asteroid

How big was it?

How long was it?

How heavy was it?

as heavy as 9 big dogs

as long as 4 dogs nose to tailas long as 21 bananas end to endas heavy as 54 watermelons

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Fun facts

Canardia is known only from juvenile specimens, so scientists think the fossils found so far are from young animals.1

Its name comes from the French word 'canard', which means 'duck', because it belongs to the duck-billed dinosaur group.1

Canardia lived between 67.5 and 66 million years ago, right up to the end of the Cretaceous Period.1

The first fossils of Canardia were discovered in 1999 near the village of Marignac-Laspeyres in France.1

Some scientists think Canardia is closely related to Aralosaurus from Central Asia, while others place it in a group with other European and North African duck-billed dinosaurs.1

One Canardia fossil was found just one metre below the layer that marks the dinosaur extinction event, showing it was one of the very last non-bird dinosaurs in Europe.1

AI-made picture of Canardia — An AI-made picture of how Canardia might have looked, made by a computer from what scientists know. It is a guess: the real animal may have looked different, and nobody knows its true colours.

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Most asked questions about Canardia

?How big was Canardia?

Scientists are not sure of its full adult size because all known fossils are from juveniles. The biggest bones found are a maxilla 16.9 cm long, a scapula 21.8 cm long, and a humerus 19.4 cm long.1

?Did Canardia have a crest?

Nobody knows for sure. No complete skull has been found, so scientists cannot tell if it had a hollow bony crest like many other lambeosaurines.1

?What did Canardia eat?

Like other duck-billed dinosaurs, Canardia was a plant-eater. It had teeth with ridges for grinding plants, and its duck-like beak helped it bite off leaves.1

?When did Canardia live?

Canardia lived between 67.5 and 66 million years ago, during the very end of the Cretaceous Period. It was one of the last non-bird dinosaurs before the big extinction.1

?Where was Canardia found?

All Canardia fossils have been found in southwestern France, in the Haute-Garonne department. The first ones were discovered in 1999 near the village of Marignac-Laspeyres.1

?Is Canardia a dinosaur?

Yes, Canardia is a dinosaur. It is a type of duck-billed dinosaur called a lambeosaurine hadrosaurid.1

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Scientific name: Canardia
Named by: Prieto-Marquez et al. 20133
Group: Duck-bills
Family / clade: Hadrosauridae3
Classification: Ornithischia > Ornithopoda > Iguanodontia > Hadrosauridae3
Age of the rocks: 72 to 66 million years (Maastrichtian)3
Rock formations: Marno-calcaires jaunes de Gensac, Marnes d'Auzas3
Countries: France3
Fossil records: 2 in the Paleobiology Database3
Discovery: Canardia was named in 2013 by Albert Prieto-Márquez and colleagues. The first fossils were found in 1999 by a team from the Musée des Dinosaures d'Espéraza in southwestern France.1
Still debated: Scientists are not sure exactly where Canardia fits in the duck-billed dinosaur family tree. Some think it belongs to a group called Aralosaurini, while others place it in Arenysaurini.1

Where the facts come from

Canardia (en.wikipedia.org)
Canardia garonnensis | Dinosaur Database by DinoAnimals.com (dinoanimals.com)
Canardia in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): age, places, rock formations, classification.

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