Outline: a typical ornithopod
Lapampasaurus
"La Pampa lizard"
- Lived
- 72 to 66 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ornithopods, Hadrosauridae
- Found in
- Argentina
- Named by
- Coria et al. 2012
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
70 million years ago
Field notes
About Lapampasaurus
What it was like
Lapampasaurus was a duck-billed plant eater, known from part of the backbone and legs.
Its world
It lived about 72 to 66 million years ago, at the end of the Late Cretaceous, in what is now Argentina. Its bones come from the Allen Formation, where it shared the land with the hadrosaur Bonapartesaurus, the raptor Austroraptor and the titanosaurs Aeolosaurus and Neuquensaurus.
How it was found
Coria and colleagues named Lapampasaurus in 2012, from a single find.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Hadrosauridae
Sources: WikidataNamed in: R. A. Coria, B. González Riga, and S. Casadio. 2012. Un nuevo hadrosáurido (Dinosauria, Ornithopoda) de la Formación Allen, provincia de La Pampa, Argentina [A new hadrosaurid (Dinosauria, Ornithopoda) from the Allen Formation, La Pampa province, Argentina]. Ameghiniana 49(4):552-572