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Meet Ajnabia odysseus, First Duck-Billed Dinosaur from Africa | Paleontology – Sci-News.com

An international team of paleontologists has identified a new genus and species of lambeosaurine hadrosaur from fossils dug up in Morocco, North Africa.

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An international team of paleontologists has identified a new genus and species of lambeosaurine hadrosaur from fossils dug up in Morocco, North Africa.
An artists impression of a group of hadrosaurs. Image credit: Raul Martin.
The newly-discovered dinosaur, dubbed Ajnabia odysseus, roamed our planet some 66 million years ago during the Maastrichtian age of the Late Cretaceous epoch.
The ancient creature was a member of Hadrosauridae, a large family of plant-eating dinosaurs that grew up to 15 m…

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