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Maiasaura
Maiasaura
- Pronunciation:
- my-ah-SORE-ah
- Name meaning:
- 'good mother lizard'

- Type of dinosaur:
- large ornithopod
- Length:
- 9.0m
- Weight:
- 2500kg
- Diet:
- herbivorous
- When it lived:
- Late Cretaceous, 80-75 million years ago
- Found in:
- USA
Taxonomic details
- Taxonomy:
- Dinosauria, Ornithischia, Neornithischia, Cerapoda, Ornithopoda, Euornithopoda, Iguanadontia, Euiguanadontia, Dryomorpha, Ankylopollexia, Iguanodontoidea, Hadrosauridae, Euhadrosauria, Hadrosaurinae
- Named by:
- Horner and Makela (1979)
- Type species:
- peeblesorum

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