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HADROSAUR [1 record]

Record 1 1990-08-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
CONT

The duck-billed dinosaurs are so called because the expanded horny beak resembles the bill of a duck.

OBS

There were two sub-families of duck-bills, the flat-headed and the hooded.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
DEF

Reptile fossile ornithischien de la fin de l'ère secondaire (crétacé supérieure), encore appelé dinosaure à bec de canard. Les hadrosaures étaient des reptiles bipèdes, mesurant jusqu'à 5 m. On pense qu'ils étaient amphibies et qu'ils se nourrissaient de plantes aquatiques; leur "bec" est formé de la soudure, en quatre plaques, de dents très nombreuses.

CONT

[...] En avant, les prémaxillaires [des Hadrosaures] sont souvent aplaties et étendus latéralement donnant au crâne, en vue supérieure, une silhouette qui a valu au groupe le nom populaire de "Dinosaures à bec de canard".

Spanish

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