The first duck-billed dinosaur (Family Hadrosauridae) from Antarctica

• Main Authors: Case, Judd A., Martin, James E., Chaney, Dan S., Reguero, Marcelo Alfredo, Marenssi, Sergio Alfredo, Santillana, Sergio M., Woodburne, Michael O.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Society of Vertebrate Paleontology
• Subjects: ANTARCTICA; JAMES ROSS BASIN; CRETACEOUS; DINOSAURIA; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.5; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Argentino; Argentina; Judd; Vega Island; Antarc*; Antarctica; Dirección Nacional del Antártico; Instituto Antártico Argentino
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11336/105444

Duck-billed dinosaurs or hadrosaurs are a very common family of dinosaurs in the Late Cretaceous of North America and Eurasia with rare occurrences in South America. Here, we report the first hadrosaur recovered in Antarctica from sandstones of late Maastrichtian age, Vega Island, Antarctic Peninsul...