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

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

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

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

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

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