By Jack Wood on @thewoodparable
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Name: Eolambia caroljonesa
Name Meaning: Dawn Lambeosaurine
Classification: Dinosauria, Ornithischia, Genasauria, Neornithischia, Cerapoda, Ornithopoda, Iguanodontia, Dryomorpha, Ankylopollexia, Styracosterna, Hadrosauriformes, Hadrosauroidea
Eolambia is another Hadrosauroid known from, specifically the Cedar Mountain Formation in Utah, dating back to the Cenomanian age of the Late Cretaceous, about 98.5 million years ago. It is known from skeletons of multiple individuals, including adults and juveniles found together with eggs and embryos, indicating that the animals lived together in family groups (unlike Iguanodon, which has no evidence of such behavior). It would have been 6 meters long (or up to 9 meters long, the full body length is still up for debate), and maybe up to one tonne in weight. Being an early Hadrosauroid, it wouldn’t have been a basal Lambeosaurine as originally thought, and thus wouldn’t have particularly resembled Lambeosaurines or Saurolophines.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eolambia
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