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Hungarosaurus

Say it: HUN-gar-oh-SORE-us

Name means: “Hungarian lizard”1

Ate: PlantsArmoured dinosLate Cretaceous

Hungarosaurus was a small, four-legged dinosaur covered in bony armor like a tank. It lived in what is now Hungary during the Late Cretaceous period, about 85 million years ago.1

Lived

86 to 84 million years ago4

Late Cretaceous

Fossils found in

Iharkút, Bakony Mountains, western Hungary1 4

Food

Plants1

Length

4 to 4.8 m1

Weight

650 kg to 1 tonnes1

When did it live?

Triassic

Jurassic

Cretaceous

252 million years ago20114566, the asteroid

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How long was it?

How heavy was it?

as heavy as 33 big dogs

as long as 5 dogs nose to tailas long as 27 bananas end to endas heavy as 200 watermelons

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Fun facts

Hungarosaurus is the most completely known armored dinosaur from the Cretaceous of Europe.1

Its body was covered with hundreds of bony plates called osteoderms.1

Hungarosaurus had unusually long front legs for an ankylosaur, almost as long as its back legs.1

The first fossils were found in an open-pit bauxite mine by amateur paleontologist András Torma in 2000.1

Hungarosaurus lived alongside fish, turtles, lizards, crocodiles, pterosaurs, and small meat-eating dinosaurs.1

Its skull was about 32 to 36 centimeters (13 to 14 inches) long and had a bumpy, ornamented surface.1

AI-made picture of Hungarosaurus — An AI-made picture of how Hungarosaurus 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 Hungarosaurus

?How big was Hungarosaurus?

Hungarosaurus was about 4 to 4.8 metres (13 to 16 ft) long and weighed around 650 to 1,000 kilograms (1,430 to 2,200 lb).1

?What did Hungarosaurus eat?

Hungarosaurus was a plant-eater, and its teeth were leaf-shaped for cutting food. It sheared its food with a slicing motion, not just simple chewing.1 3

?Did Hungarosaurus have armor?

Yes, its body was covered with hundreds of bony plates called osteoderms, which acted like protective armor.1

?Where did Hungarosaurus live?

It lived in what is now Hungary, specifically in the Bakony Mountains, during the Late Cretaceous about 85 million years ago.1

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Scientific name: Hungarosaurus
Named by: Osi 20054
Group: Armoured dinos
Family / clade: Nodosauridae4
Classification: Ornithischia > Ankylosauria > Nodosauridae > Thyreophora4
Age of the rocks: 86 to 84 million years (Santonian)4
Rock formations: Csehbánya4
Countries: Hungary4
Fossil records: 2 in the Paleobiology Database4
Discovery: Hungarosaurus was named by paleontologist Attila Ősi in 2005. The species name H. tormai honors András Torma, who discovered the fossil site in 2000 in Hungary.1
Still debated: Scientists are still debating exactly how Hungarosaurus is related to other nodosaurids, especially the European Struthiosaurus.1 2

Where the facts come from

Hungarosaurus (en.wikipedia.org)
Hungarosaurus tormai, a new ankylosaur (Dinosauria) from the Upper Cretaceous of Hungary - ADS (ui.adsabs.harvard.edu)
Hungarosaurus tormai – Magyar Dinoszaurusz-kutató Expedíció (magyardinoszaurusz.hu)
Hungarosaurus in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): age, places, rock formations, classification.

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