Name:
Bonapartesaurus
(Bonapartes’ lizard).
Phonetic: Bon-ah-parte-sor-us.
Named By: P. Cruzado-Caballero & J.
E. Powell - 2017.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia, Dinosauria,
Ornithischia, Hadrosauroidea.
Species: B. rionegrensis
(type).
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Roughly estimated at about 7 meters long.
Known locations: Argentina - Allen Formation.
Time period: Campanian/Maastrichtian of the
Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Partial skeleton.
Fossils
of Bonapartesaurus were first assigned to the genus
Willinakaqe.
However a few years after naming Willinakaqe,
Palaeontologists came
to the conclusion that that genus was based upon the collection of
several different kinds of hadrosaur.
This included the Paratype
material of Willinakaqe which became the genus Bonapartesaurus.
Bonapartesaurus
was a medium sized hadrosaur,
sharing it’s habitat with a variety of
titanosaurs,
as well as predatory dinosaurs such as dromaeosaurs
and
abelisaurs.
Further reading
- Bonapartesaurus rionegrensis, a new
hadrosaurine dinosaur from
South America: implications for phylogenetic and biogeographic
relations with North America. - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
37(2):e1289381:1-16. - P. Cruzado-Caballero & J.
E. Powell - 2017.