Kamuysaurus

What it was like

Kamuysaurus was a duckbill, a large plant eater with a broad beak and rows of grinding teeth. It was a close relative of Edmontosaurus and had a low crest on its head. Its skeleton is nearly complete, the most complete dinosaur yet found in Japan.

Its world

It lived about 72 to 66 million years ago, near the end of the Cretaceous, in what is now Japan. Its bones were found in the Hakobuchi Formation, which formed in the sea, so the body was probably washed out from the coast.

How it was found

Kobayashi and colleagues named Kamuysaurus in 2019. The type species is Kamuysaurus japonicus. The first bones, from the tail, were found by an amateur collector, and digging later exposed almost the whole animal.