Magnapaulia
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Magnapaulia is a genus of herbivorous lambeosaurine hadrosaurid dinosaurs known from the Latest Cretaceous Baja California, of northwestern Mexico. It contains a single species, Magnapaulia laticaudus.[2] Magnapaulia was first described in 1981 as a possible species of Lambeosaurus by William J. Morris,[3] and was given its own genus in 2012 by Prieto-Márquez and colleagues.[2]
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Magnapaulia | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | †Ornithischia |
Clade: | †Ornithopoda |
Family: | †Hadrosauridae |
Subfamily: | †Lambeosaurinae |
Tribe: | †Lambeosaurini |
Genus: | †Magnapaulia Prieto-Márquez et al., 2012 |
Type species | |
†Magnapaulia laticaudus (Morris, 1981) | |
Synonyms | |
†Lambeosaurus laticaudus |
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