Canardia is an extinct genus of lambeosaurine dinosaur known from the Late Cretaceous Marnes d'Auzas Formation of Haute-Garonne department, in Occitanie region, southwestern France. The type species C
The Larcan specimen (a right maxilla and quadrate) of Canardia found about 1 m under an iridium level marking the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary.
Canardia garonnensis. Part of the dental battery of the lower jaw in occlusal (A) and lingual (B) views. Details of the crowns of the same specimens (C, E) and of an isolated dentary tooth (D).
Diagram of skull material
Hadrosauridae, is a family of ornithischian dinosaurs informally referred to as duck-billed dinosaurs. This group is known as the duck-billed dinosaurs for the flat duck-bill appearance of the bones i
Canardia
…from juvenile specimens. The name of the genus comes from "canard", the French word for "duck", an allusion to the fact that this animal belongs to the Hadrosauridae which are also known as "duck-billed dinosaurs". The specific epithet garonnensis refers to the Haute-Garonne department where this dinosaur has been…
ROM 39 Maiasaura & Gryposaurus
Hypacrosaurus Royal Tyrrell
FMNH Parasaurolophus fossil