"This new animal is one of the more primitive hadrosaurids known and can therefore help us to understand how and why the ornamentation on their heads evolved, as well as where the group initially evolved and migrated from," says lead author Dr Albert Prieto-MEirquez from the Institut Catala de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont, near Barcelona.
Duck-billed dinosaurs, also known as hadrosaurids, were the most common herbivorous dinosaurs at the end of the Mesozoic Era, and all had a similar-looking snout.
The splendid yellow 'casque' upon its head which amplifies its honking call is said to resemble those of
hadrosaurids, dead for 60 million years.
An |and her The splendid yellow 'casque' upon its head which amplifies its honking call is said to resemble those of
hadrosaurids, dead for 60 million years.
(2015) describe diminutive fossil bones referable to
hadrosaurids from the latest Cretaceous of Huesca in the south-central Pyrenees.
If the
hadrosaurids were overwintering on this Arctic insular landmass, they would have had to subsist on local food sources.
27), and unlike in
hadrosaurids (McDonald, 2012a: character 102).
In recent years, an effort has been made to understand the origin and evolution of European
hadrosaurids, with the demonstration that part of the faunas are migrants (Pereda-Suberbiola et al., 2009a; Prieto-Marquez et al., 2013; Cruzado-Caballero et al., 2014).
Another small dinosaur was the
hadrosaurid Telmatosaurus.