MINQARIA
a small lambeosaurine hadrosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Morocco.
Pronunciation: min-kwah-ree-uh
Meaning: Beak
Author/s: Longrich
et al. (
2024)
Synonyms: None known
First Discovery: Khouribga Province, Morocco
Discovery Chart Position: #1116
Minqaria bata
(Duck Beak)Etymology
Minqaria is derived from the arabic "Minqar" (beak).
The
species epithet,
bata, means "duck" in arabic.
Discovery
The remains of
Minqaria were discovered in couche III marine phosphates of the Oulad Aboun Basin, in the the mines at Sidi Chennane, Khouribga Province, Morocco. The same locality has yielded the fossils of two other duck-billed dinosaurs,
Ajnabia odysseus and
Taleta taleta, but they all differ in features of the fossils that are comparable, particularly the teeth. The
holotype (MHNM.KHG.1395, housed at the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle de Marrakech) is a partial skull, including the right upper jaw with teeth, left lower jaw, and braincase.
Estimations
Timeline:
Era: Mesozoic
Epoch: Late Cretaceous
Stage: Maastrichtian
Age range: 68-66 mya
Stats:
Est. max. length: 3.5 meters
Est. max. hip height: ?
Est. max. weight: 250 Kg
Diet: Herbivore
References
• Longrich NR, Suberbiola XP, Pyron RA and Jalil N-E (2020) "The first duckbill dinosaur (Hadrosauridae: Lambeosaurinae) from Africa and the role of oceanic dispersal in dinosaur biogeography".
Cretaceous Research. DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2020.104678. [coins
Ajnabia.]
• Longrich NR, Pereda-Suberbiola X, Bardet N and Jalil N-E (2024) "A new small duckbilled dinosaur (Hadrosauridae: Lambeosaurinae) from Morocco and dinosaur diversity in the late Maastrichtian of North Africa".
Scientific Reports, 14: 3665. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-53447-9.
• Longrich NR, Pereda-Suberbiola X, Bardet N and Jalil N-E (2025)
"A new hadrosaurid dinosaur from the late Maastrichtian Phosphates of Morocco provides evidence for an African radiation of lambeosaurines".
Gondwana Research (advance online publication).
DOI: 10.1016/j.gr.2025.05.006. [coins
Taleta.]
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