🎨 RestorationRestoration: Connor Ashbridge · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons Source
Life restorations are artistic reconstructions based on fossil evidence; true coloration and soft-tissue details remain uncertain.
Maiasaura
Maiasaura peeblesorum (Maiasaura · Maiasaura)
Known only from fossils. The IUCN Red List assesses only species extant since 1500 CE, so fossil taxa are not assigned a category.
💡 Everyday Comparisons for Size, Mass & Speed
- 💡 Its estimated body length of about 9 m (representative value for the genus) is about 3/4 the length of a city bus of around 12 m (Comparison).
- 💡 Its estimated weight of about 2.5 tonnes is about one and a half times that of a 1.5-tonne passenger car (Comparison).
Reference standards: coach bus ~12 m, mid-size car ~4.9 m, compact car ~1 t, basketball hoop 3.05 m, credit card 8.56 cm.
Site-computed relative index from recorded values; not a formal scientific metric.
📖 1. Overview
Maiasaura peeblesorum (genus Maiasaura) was a herbivorous duck-billed dinosaur (hadrosaurid) that lived in what is now the United States during the Late Cretaceous.
🦴 2. Anatomy & Morphology
It had a horny beak and chewing teeth.
🔍 3. Fossil Record & Paleoecology
The Natural History Museum, London guide notes that it ate plants. It walked on two or four legs, and its fossils have been found in the United States.
🇰🇷 4. Connection to Korea
No direct record connecting this species to Korea has been found.
📚 Sources & References
- • Fossil taxon — the IUCN Red List assesses only species living or extinct since 1500
- • paleobiodb.org — basicTaxonInfo
- • wikidata.org — Q85625752
- • commons.wikimedia.org — File:Maiasaura skeleton.jpg
- • nhm.ac.uk — maiasaura.html
- • Silhouette: PhyloPic — Tasman Dixon · CC0 1.0
Recorded dimensions are widely cited representative estimates from public literature and may vary by study or specimen.