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Fact Files
| Maiasaura |
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| Name |
Maiasaura peeblesorum |
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Information |
Diet |
Herbivorous |
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Maiasaura was a large, plant eating dinosaur that roamed the open plains of late cretaceous North America - some 65 million years ago! This means Maiasaura would have been in large herds and lived around the same time period as dinosaurs such as Velociraptor, Tyrannosaurus Rex and and Ankylosaurus! |
| Height |
6-8ft |
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| Length |
30ft |
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| Weight |
3-4 tons |
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| Location |
North America |
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| Era |
80-65 million years ago |
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Interesting Fact |
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Maiasaura is famous because paleontologists know that the herds used to make great nests for their young, and kept the eggs warm by covering them with rotting vegetation as opposed to sitting on them! Maiasaura is always considered to be the "mother" dinosaur. |
| Name Means |
"Good Mother Lizard" |
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| Pronunciation |
My-ah-SAW-rah |
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| Family |
Hadrosauridae |
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