Maiasaura - Toronto, Ontario
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N 43° 40.070 W 079° 23.643
17T E 629472 N 4836233
This statue is located in Toronto's Royal Ontario Museum.
Waymark Code: WMF0M4
Location: Ontario, Canada
Date Posted: 08/02/2012
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This statue is about a foot tall and two feetlong and is 1/7 scale.
The accompanying placard reads:
"Maiasaura
A plant-eating dinosaur. Size of an elephant.
Lived 77 million years ago in Montana.
Pewter model (1:7 scale)"
Wikipedia (
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"Maiasaura was large, attaining an adult length of about 9 metres (30 ft) and had the typical hadrosaurid flat beak and a thick nose. It had a small, spiky crest in front of its eyes. The crest may have been used in headbutting contests between males during the breeding season.
This dinosaur was herbivorous. It walked both on two (bipedal) or four (quadrupedal) legs and appeared to have no defense against predators, except, perhaps, its heavy muscular tail and its herd behaviour. These herds were extremely large and could have comprised as many as 10,000 individuals. Maisaura lived in an inland habitat."