Blasisaurus
Name:
Blasisaurus.
Phonetic: Blah-se-sor-us.
Named By: P. Cruzado-Caballero, X.
Pereda-Suberbiola & J. I. Ruiz-Ome�aca - 2010.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia, Dinosauria,
Ornithischia, Ornithopoda, Hadrosauridae, Lambeosaurinae.
Species: B. canudoi (type).
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Uncertain due to lack of fossil remains.
Known locations: Spain - Ar�n Formation.
Time period: Maastrichtian of the Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Partial skull and lower jaws.
Blasisaurus is a genus of hadrosaur that is currently only known from a partial skull and jaws. Despite the fact that Blasisaurus is known only from partial fragmentary remains, the genus serves as a rare example of a European hadorsaur. Another genus of hadrosaur also known to have lived in Spain is Arenysaurus.
Further reading
- Blasisaurus canudoi gen. et sp. nov., a new lambeosaurine
dinosaur (Hadrosauridae) from the latest Cretaceous of Ar�n
(Huesca, Spain). - Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences
47:1507 -1517. - P. Cruzado-Caballero, X.
Pereda-Suberbiola & J. I. Ruiz-Ome�aca - 2010.
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