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Magnapaulia

Ate: PlantsDuck-billsLate Cretaceous

Magnapaulia belongs to the group: Duck-bills. Its fossils come from rocks about 84 to 72 million years old.1

Lived
84 to 72 million years ago1
Late Cretaceous
Most fossils found in
Mexico1
Top speed
about 24 km/h (15 mph)
Running, estimate

When did it live?

Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
252 million years ago20114566, the asteroid

How fast was it?

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An AI-made picture of how Magnapaulia 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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Scientific name
Magnapaulia
Named by
Prieto-Marquez et al. 20121
Group
Duck-bills
Family / clade
Hadrosauridae1
Classification
Ornithischia > Ornithopoda > Iguanodontia > Hadrosauridae1
Age of the rocks
84 to 72 million years (Campanian)1
Rock formations
El Gallo1
Countries
Mexico1
Fossil records
4 in the Paleobiology Database1

Where the facts come from

  1. Magnapaulia in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): age, places, rock formations, classification.

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