California has a new state dinosaur
The list of California’s designated symbols just got longer now that Gov. Jerry Brown declared that the Golden State will have its own official dinosaur.
Called the Augustynolophus morrisi, the duck-billed hadrosaur roamed California 66 million years ago during the late Cretaceous period when Tyrannosaurus and Triceratops were contemporaries.
They grew to be as big as 26 feet tall and 11 feet long.
The only two known fossils of the dinosaur, nicknamed “Auggie,” were found in Fresno and San Benito counties by paleontologists in 1939 and 1940, according to a news release from the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, where the remains are on display.
That makes the Augustynolophus “a unique dinosaur that has only been found in California,” according to Assembly Bill 1540, which Brown signed on Saturday.
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