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Maiasaura was an herbivore, a plant eater. An adult would need to eat about 200 pounds of leaves, berries and seeds per day. A Hadrosaur footprint. Maiasaura walked on four legs, and was a relatively fast dinosaur.
- What did the Maiasaura eat?
- Did Maiasaura eat wood?
- Was Maiasaura a good mother?
- How did Maiasaura defend itself?
- What type of fossil is the Maiasaura?
- How do you get Maiasaura?
- What is Wyoming's state dinosaur?
- What did Coelophysis look like?
- Why was Maiasaura important?
- Where is Maiasaura found?
- How was the Maiasaura dinosaur different from modern reptiles?
- Who named the Maiasaura?
- How long does it take to grow a Maia the isle?
- When did the Maiasaura go extinct?
What did the Maiasaura eat?
Maiasaura were herbivores, which means they ate plants instead of meat. They lived in the Late Cretaceous Period, approximately 80 million years ago, in North America. Maiasaura had a toothless beak for snipping plants and hundreds of teeth designed for chewing and grinding.
Did Maiasaura eat wood?
Diet. A paper from 2007 showed that Maiasaura had a diet consisting of fibrous plants, wood, rotting wood, tree bark, leaves, branches, ferns, angiosperms and possibly grasses. This would imply that Maiasaura was both a browser and a grazer.
Was Maiasaura a good mother?
Maiasaura was formerly named and described by American palaeontologists Jack Horner and Robert Makela in 1979. As this dinosaur was such a good mother, and since the fossilised adults were believed to be female, this dinosaur was named using the Latinised female gender.
How did Maiasaura defend itself?
Maiasaura peeblesorum had few ways of protecting itself from predators, except to travel in large herds. Although adults walked on four legs, they could run for short periods on two legs, which was faster, as another way to excape predators. An organism today that also runs fast to escape predators is the Okapia.
What type of fossil is the Maiasaura?
Maiasaura, (genus Maiasaura), duck-billed dinosaurs (hadrosaurs) found as fossils from the Late Cretaceous Period (about 100 million to 65.5 million years old) of North America and whose discovery led to the theory that these bipedal herbivores cared for their young.
How do you get Maiasaura?
Maiasaura fossils are unlocked once the player builds their third expedition and fossil centers on Isla Tacano.
What is Wyoming's state dinosaur?
Triceratops is the official state dinosaur of Wyoming. Wyoming is the only state that has both a state dinosaur and a state fossil (Knightia, a fish).
What did Coelophysis look like?
Coelophysis was a primitive theropod dinosaur. Usually growing to length of about 2 metres (6.6 feet), it was very light, weighing only about 18–23 kg (40–50 pounds), and had a long, slender neck, tail, and hind legs. The head was long and narrow, and the jaws were equipped with many sharp teeth.
Why was Maiasaura important?
Decades of research on Montana's state fossil -- the “good mother lizard” Maiasaura peeblesorum – has resulted in the most detailed life history of any dinosaur known and created a model to which all other dinosaurs can be compared, according to new research published today in the journal Paleobiology.
Where is Maiasaura found?
Maiasaura was a herbivore. It lived in the Cretaceous period and inhabited North America. Its fossils have been found in places such as Montana. This dinosaur was named “The Good Mother” because there is evidence that she looked after her nest of eggs very well.
How was the Maiasaura dinosaur different from modern reptiles?
Cold-blooded animals do not grow that fast because they have much slower metabolisms. Modern reptiles also have something like growth rings on their bones, but the bones of Maiasaura resemble the bones of warm-blooded animals. Maiasaura had very unusual teeth, which were great for chewing plants.
Who named the Maiasaura?
The Maiasaura was first discovered in 1978 by Laurie Trexler, since then hundreds of specimens have been uncovered. It was later described by Jack Horner, known for his work as the paleontologic advisor for the Jurassic Park movies, and Robert Makela.
How long does it take to grow a Maia the isle?
Baby Maiasaura were highly altricial, and could not move out of the nest upon hatching; their forelegs were not fully developed, and so walking would have been impossible. Maiasaura also grew quickly, with young growing from 41 to 147 cm in length over a single year.
When did the Maiasaura go extinct?
If these dinosaurs did not get extinct until the end of the cretaceous period, they may have been washed off the surface of earth around 66 million years ago - since it was around his time that the cretaceous period was brought to an end with a meteor collision!
