Bonapartesaurus | |
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Life restoration | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | †Ornithischia |
Clade: | †Neornithischia |
Clade: | †Ornithopoda |
Family: | †Hadrosauridae |
Subfamily: | †Saurolophinae |
Clade: | †Austrokritosauria |
Genus: | †Bonapartesaurus Cruzado-Caballero & Powell 2017 |
Type species | |
†Bonapartesaurus rionegrensis Cruzado-Caballero & Powell 2017
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Bonapartesaurus (meaning "Bonaparte's lizard", named after José Bonaparte) is an extinct genus of herbivorous ornithopod dinosaur belonging to Hadrosauridae, which lived in the area of modern Argentina during the Campanian and Maastrichtian stages of the Late Cretaceous.[1]