Magnapaulia Magnapaulia laticaudus (Morris 1981)
/mˌæɡnɐpˈɔːliə/
estimated
Late Cretaceous (Campanian) · 83.6–72.2 Mya
Key Statistics
Diet
herbivore
Locomotion
bipedal
inferred from clade
Habitat
ground-dwelling
Social
herding
Where It Was Found
Country
Mexico
Region
Baja California
Formation
El Gallo
Dig sites
4
distinct collections
Overview
Magnapaulia laticaudus is an ornithopod dinosaur known from the Late Cretaceous, roughly 83.6–72.2 million years ago. It was a herbivore. It is recorded as ground-dwelling and herding. Fossils have been recovered from Baja California, Mexico. It was named by (Morris 1981). The species is represented by 4 recorded occurrences in the Paleobiology Database.
Fossil Record Completeness
How much of this profile is grounded in the fossil record
~15%
confidence from occurrence count
Based on 4 recorded occurrences in the Paleobiology Database.
Geologic Time
Where Magnapaulia laticaudus sits in deep time
Magnapaulia
252 Mya201 Mya145 Mya66 Mya
Relationships
Part of a wider fossil web
These species share Magnapaulia laticaudus's place in deep time — computed from overlapping age ranges, shared clades, and inferred ecology. Predator–prey pairs additionally have to have been dug up in the same place.