Gryposaurus

Pronunciation:
grip-oh-sore-us
Name meaning:
'hook-nosed lizard'

© Andrey Atuchin

Type of dinosaur:
large ornithopod
Length:
10.0m
Diet:
herbivorous
When it lived:
Late Cretaceous, 86-71 million years ago
Found in:
Canada,
USA

Gryposaurus is known from several skeletons, including one which is fully articulated (the bones were joined as they would have been when the dinosaur was alive).

Taxonomic details

Taxonomy:
Dinosauria, Ornithischia, Ornithopoda, Hadrosauridae, Euhadrosauria, Hadrosaurinae
Named by:
Lambe (1914)
Type species:
notabilis