Maiasaura

Pronunciation:
my-ah-SORE-ah
Name meaning:
'good mother lizard'
Type of dinosaur:
large ornithopod
Length:
9.0m
Weight:
2500kg
Diet:
herbivorous
Teeth:
horny beak and chewing teeth
Food:
plant material
How it moved:
on 2 or 4 legs
When it lived:
Late Cretaceous, 80-75 million years ago
Found in:
USA

Taxonomic details

Taxonomy:
Dinosauria, Ornithischia, Ornithopoda, Hadrosauridae, Euhadrosauria, Hadrosaurinae
Named by:
Horner and Makela (1979)
Type species:
peeblesorum