Maiasaura
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Translingual
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ancient Greek μαῖα (maîa, “caring mother”) + -saura; there is evidence that they nurtured their young in the nest.
Proper noun
[edit]†Maiasaura f
- A taxonomic genus within the family Hadrosauridae – large duck-billed dinosaurs of North America that lived in the Campanian period.
- 2015 July 9, “First Reported Cases of Biomechanically Adaptive Bone Modeling in Non-Avian Dinosaurs”, in PLOS ONE[1] (in English), :
- Minimum age of Maiasaura individuals was determined by counting the number of annually deposited lines of arrested growth (see [10 –12 ] for descriptions of skeletochronology methods).
Further reading
[edit]- Maiasaura on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Maiasaura on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Maiasaura on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons