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Gryposaurus
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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).
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- Pronounced
- grip-oh-sore-us
- Meaning of name
- hook-nosed lizard
- Length
- 10m
- Diet
- herbivorous
- When it lived
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Late Cretaceous
(86 - 71 million years ago) - Found in
- Canada, USA
Taxonomic details
- Taxonomy
- Dinosauria, Ornithischia, Genasauria, Cerapoda, Ornithopoda, Euornithopoda, Iguanadontia, Euiguanadontia, Dryomorpha, Ankylopollexia, Iguanodontoidea, Hadrosauridae, Euhadrosauria, Hadrosaurinae, Gryposaurus
- Named by
- Lambe (1914)
- Type species
- notabilis