Maiasaura

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Etymology

From Ancient Greek μαῖα (maîa, “caring mother”) +‎ -saura; there is evidence that they nurtured their young in the nest.

Proper noun

†Maiasaura f

  1. 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 (in English), →DOI:
      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).

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