Antonio dinosaur, was affectionately nicknamed 'ANTONIO'-but perhaps too hurriedly, because it now seems that the example found was female! It belongs to a gnewly-discovered species and its scientific name was given to it when the results of the first excavations were published.
It is discovered by Tiziana Brazzatti in 1995.And it is discovered remain in Europe.
Antonio Dinosaur has three classification such as Ornithischia, Ornithopoda and Hadrosauridae. It has 4 meters length, 1.3 meters height and 700 kilograms weight. There food was herbivore.
Antonio was a biped dinosaur but it could also move on four legs.It fed on plant life which it minced of with rows of hundreds of teeth. It had a flat nose like a duck's beak and lived in herbs with others of its type.
Antonio, came to light in Trieste, at the Villaggio del Pescatore (Feshermen's Village) in the Duino area. It was the oldest and most complete example of a hadrosaur dinosaur to be found in the world, giving us important information as to how this group of dinosaurs developed and their possible area of origin.
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