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MAGNAPAULIA
(mag-nah-pawl-e-ah)
meaning: "Large Paul - After Paul G. Haaga, Jr"
Magnapaulia
Named By: Albert PrietoinMarquez, Luis Chiappe & Shantanu Joshi in 2012
Time Period: Late Cretaceous, 73.6-73 Ma
Location: Baja California - El Gallo Formation
Size: Estimated 12.5 meters long
Diet: Herbivore
Fossil(s): Partial post cranial and skull remains, as well as attributed skin impressions
Classification: | Chordata | Reptilia | Dinosauria | Ornithischia | Ornithopoda | Hadrosauridae | Euhadrosauria | Lambeosaurinae |
Also known as: | Lambeosaurus laticaudus |
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Magnapaulia is a genus of herbivorous lambeosaurine hadrosaurid dinosaurs known from the Latest Cretaceous Baja California, of northwestern Mexico. It contains a single species, Magnapaulia laticaudus. Magnapaulia was first described in 1981 as a possible species of Lambeosaurus by William J. Morris, and was given its own genus in 2012 by Prieto-Marquez and colleagues.

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