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Maiasaura
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Translingual
Etymology
From mul grc:μαῖα -saura caring mother; there is evidence that they nurtured their young in the nest.
Proper noun
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genus family Hadrosauridae large duck-billed dinosaurs of North America that lived in the Campanian period
en mul 2015-07-09 First Reported Cases of Biomechanically Adaptive Bone Modeling in Non-Avian Dinosaurs PLOS ONE http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0131131 10.1371/journal.pone.0131131 Minimum age of Maiasaura individuals was determined by counting the number of annually deposited lines of arrested growth (see [10 –12 ] for descriptions of skeletochronology methods).
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