
Dinosaur profile
Secernosaurus
Pronunciation
Seh-ser-noe-sore-us
Severed lizard
Euornithopod
3 meters long
Late Cretaceous
71-65 million years ago
Argentina
DietHerbivore
About Secernosaurus
Secernosaurus is a genus of ornithopod dinosaur that lived during the Late Cretaceous period, approximately 66-100 million years ago. It was a small to medium-sized herbivorous dinosaur that was characterized by its distinctive skull, which had a long and narrow snout and large, forward-facing nostrils. It is known from fossil remains found in Argentina and is classified as a member of the family Camptosauridae. The only known species of Secernosaurus is S. koerneri. It is thought that Secernosaurus may have been an ancestor of the more well-known hadrosaurid dinosaurs, also known as 'duck-billed' dinosaurs.
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