#hadrosauridae

[alphynix]

For a long time there were no hadrosaurid fossils known from Africa.

This seemed to mainly be due to the limits of the geography of their time. Hadrosaurs evolved and flourished during the late Cretaceous, when Africa was isolated from all the other continents, and they didn't seem to have ever found their way across the oceanic barriers.

…Until in 2021 a small hadrosaur was discovered in Morocco, a close relative of several European species, showing that some of these dinosaurs did reach northwest Africa just before the end of the Cretaceous - and with no land bridges or nearby island chains to hop along, they must have arrived from Europe via swimming, floating, or rafting directly across several hundred kilometers of deep water.

And now another hadrosaur has just been described from the same time and place.

Minqaria bata lived in Morocco at the very end of the Cretaceous, about 67 million years ago. Only known from a partial skull, its full appearance and body size is unknown, but it probably measured around 3.5m long (~11'6") – slightly larger than its previously discovered relative, but still very small for a hadrosaur. It might represent a case of insular dwarfism, since at the time Morocco may have been an island isolated from the rest of northwest Africa.

Along with its close relative Ajnabia, and at least one other currently-unnamed larger hadrosaur species, Minqaria seems to be part of a rapid diversification of hadrosaurs following their arrival in Morocco, adapting into new ecological niches in their new habitat where the only other herbivorous dinosaur competition was titanosaurian sauropods, and the only large predators were abelisaurs.

If the K-Pg mass extinction hadn't happened just a million years later, who knows what sort of weird African hadrosaurs we could have ended up with?

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#science illustration #paleontology #paleoart #palaeoblr #minqaria #hadrosaur #hadrosauridae #ornithopod #ornithischia #dinosaur #art #insular dwarfism #african hadrosaurs!

[dynasoar5]

standing hadrosaur woman study

#art #sketch #wip #digital art #digital painting #conte #oil #chalk #anthro #furry #anthro art #furry art #dinosaur #saurian #hadrosaur #hadrosauridae #dynasoar5 #ssohardd #figurative art

[jackthevulture]

Sorry for lack of dinos lately, I dont have the attention span to paint much more than a bust, but I wanted to do a hadrosaur today. So heres a Saurolophus :) First time drawing this taxa so if i goofed anything up major lmk

#art #my art #dinosaur #paleoart #palaeoblr #saurolophus #hadrosaur #hadrosauridae #ornithischia #digital art

[carvente]

A nice picnic on the beach to forget about the horrors.

Telmatosaurus from Prehistoric Planet, art by me.

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#paleoart #art #illustration #paleoillustration #ilustración #prehistoric planet #forests #paleoblr #dinosaurs #telmatosaurus #hadrosauridae #hateg island #artists on tumblr

[new-dinosaurs]

Minqaria bata Longrich et al., 2024 (new genus and species)

(Type specimen of Minqaria bata [scale bar = 5 cm], from Longrich et al., 2024)

Meaning of name: Minqaria = beak [in Arabic]; bata = duck [in Arabic]

Age: Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian)

Where found: Sidi Chennane, Béni Mellal-Khénifra, Morocco

How much is known: Partial skull of one individual.

Notes: Minqaria was a hadrosaurid (duck-billed dinosaur). It was small for a member of this group, estimated as having been about 3.5 m in total body length and weighing around 250 kg. Another hadrosaurid of similar size, Ajnabia, lived alongside it, suggesting that a range of small hadrosaurids were present in North Africa near the end of the Cretaceous.

Reference: Longrich, N.R., X. Pereda-Suberbiola, N. Bardet, and N.-E. Jalil. 2024. A new small duckbilled dinosaur (Hadrosauridae: Lambeosaurinae) from Morocco and dinosaur diversity in the late Maastrichtian of North Africa. Scientific Reports 14: 3665. doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-53447-9

#Palaeoblr #Dinosaurs #Minqaria #Late Cretaceous #Africa #Hadrosauridae #2024 #Extinct

[pocoslip]

I'm pretty sure Trikes are Much Larger next to Parasaurs but I could be wrong

(also i still cannot find mattel's habitat defender triceratops in any nearby stores in australia... :'))

#jurassic park #dinosaurs #dinosaur toys #jurassic world mattel #jurassic world #triceratops #ceratopsians #jurassic world fallen kingdom #mattel #jurassic world dominion #parasaurolophus #trike #palaeontology #hadrosauridae #jurassic park mattel #toy photography #paleontology #fallen kingdom #hammond collection #the lost world: jurassic park

[paleonativeart]

Day 7: Charonosaurus

A last of the parasaurolophini tribes of the Asian region.

#my art #dinosaur #paleoart #myart #dinosaurs #dinosauria #my drawings #charonosaurus #parasaurolophini #Hadrosauridae #lambeosaurinae #ornithopoda #ornithischia #sketchbookapp #sketchbook app #artists on tumblr

[extinctworld-ua]

Gobihadros

Gobihadros — рід базальних гадрозавроїдних динозаврів, що мешкали в Азії в пізньому крейдяному періоді на території сучасної формації Баян-Ширех (сеноман-сантон). Рід містить лише типовий вид Gobihadros mongoliensis. Його приблизна довжина становила 7,5 м.

Art by: @knuppitalism-with-ue

Повний текст на сайті "Вимерлий світ":

https://extinctworld.in.ua/gobihadros/

#gobihadros #hadrosauridae #gobi #gobi desert #dinosaur #late cretaceous #paleoart #cretaceous period #art #cretaceous #mongolia #dinosaurs #paleontology #prehistoric #animals #палеоарт #палеонтологія #ukraine #ukrainian #prehistory #extinct #daily #digital art #україна #тварини #українська мова #арт #ua #мова #динозавр

[gae-garrett]

#autism #dinosaurs #dinosaur dictionary #funny stuff #memes #hadrosaur #hadrosauridae #parasaurolophus #parasaur #i love them #favorite

[unfroggettable]

P is for for parasaurolophus

#parasaurolophus #hadrosauridae #herbivore #dinosaur #sketch #painting #gouache #art #commission #cute #drawing #cretaceous period #late cretaceous #Cretaceous

[confusedhadrosaur]

Day 13:  Lambeosaurus lambei

#Lambeosaurus lambei #Lambeosaurus #Hadrosaur #Lambeosaurini #Corythosauria #Lambeosaurinae #Hadrosauridae #ornithopod #Ornithischia #paleoart #dinosaur #paleoblr #paleontology #archovember #archovember2022 #dinovember #dinovember2022 #art #digital art #palaeoblr

[fundinofactoftheday]

Dinofact #92

The site where the first and only specimen of Hadrosaurus was discovered is now a National Historic Landmark, known as the Hadrosaurus foulkii Leidy site. Hadrosaurus represents the first dinosaur species to be known from more than isolated teeth identified in North America.

Source: Wikipedia

#dinosaur #dinosaurs #paleontology #hadrosaurus #hadrosaur #hadrosaurine #hadrosaurinae #hadrosaurs #hadrosaurines #hadrosaurid #hadrosaurids #hadrosauridae #north america #landmark #historic landmark #landmarks #historic landmarks #national historic landmark #national historic landmarks #hadrosaurus foulkii leidy site #fun facts #trivia #dinosaur trivia #dinosaur fun facts #27th #november #2022 #november 27th #november 2022 #november 27th 2022

[dynasoar5]

painting. portrait of an edmontosaur wearing a montera picona

#art #painting #digital art #digital painting #portrait #three quarter portrait #anthro art #furry art #dinosaur #saurian #hadrosauridae #edmontosaurus #anthro #furry #scalie #fantasy art #montera picona #dynasoar5 #ssohardd

[carvente]

Parasaurolophus walkeri by Carvente

#parasaurolophus #ornithopod #hadrosauridae #dinosaurs #illustration #paleoart #vector #art #paleoillustration #vectorart #ilustración #vectorillustration

[new-dinosaurs]

Malefica deckerti Prieto-Márquez & Wagner, 2022 (new genus and species)

(Type maxilla [bone in the upper jaw] of Malefica deckerti, from Prieto-Márquez and Wagner, 2022)

Meaning of name: Malefica = witch [in Latin, referring to its discovery at Bruja Canyon, with “Bruja” being Spanish for “witch”]; deckerti = for Frank Deckert [former superintendent of Big Bend National Park and discoverer of the original fossil]

Age: Late Cretaceous (Campanian)

Where found: Aguja Formation, Texas, U.S.A.

How much is known: A partial left maxilla (one of the bones in the upper jaw).

Notes: Malefica was a hadrosaurid (duck-billed dinosaur), but probably not a member of either of the two major lineages, the broad-billed saurolophines and the crested lambeosaurines, which together form the group Euhadrosauria. Up until the last decade, very few non-euhadrosaur hadrosaurids had been identified, but recent finds, including Malefica, have substantially added to the known diversity in this part of the hadrosaurid family tree.

Although Malefica is only known from a single incomplete bone, the maxilla has been found to be a useful element for distinguishing between different hadrosaurids, allowing the type specimen to be recognized as a probable new species.

Reference: Prieto-Márquez, A. and J.R. Wagner. 2022. A new ‘duck-billed’ dinosaur (Ornithischia: Hadrosauridae) from the upper Campanian of Texas points to a greater diversity of early hadrosaurid offshoots. Cretaceous Research advance online publication. doi: 10.1016/j.cretres.2022.105416

#Palaeoblr #Dinosaurs #Malefica #Late Cretaceous #North America #Hadrosauridae #2022 #Extinct

[perdoodle]

Meet Minmin! This young hyper-active adventurous dino is ready to take on any challenge with a artistic touch of course! She loves to paint and will often paint on others or objects. Bringing the world around her to life!

I redesign her to make her more fun and easier to draw. Not much has change. Mostly her anatomy is what changed.

#Minmin #reference sheet #Perdoodle #hadrosauridae #Paint #Pink #dinosaur #Dino