Aquilarhinus
Field photograph to come
Aquilarhinus
DV-1092 · type species Aquilarhinus palimentus
- Lived
- 84 to 72 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ornithopods, Hadrosauridae
- Found in
- United States
- Named by
- Prieto-Márquez et al. 2020
Field notes
About Aquilarhinus
Aquilarhinus was a plant-eating ornithopod that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 84 to 72 million years ago. It belongs to the family Hadrosauridae.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Aquilarhinus, from Texas. Its fossils come from the Aguja Formation. It was named by Prieto-Márquez et al. in 2020.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
80 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Hadrosauridae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: A. Prieto-Márquez, J. R. Wagner, and T. Lehman. 2020. An unusual ‘shovel-billed’ dinosaur with trophic specializations from the early Campanian of Trans-Pecos Texas, and the ancestral hadrosaurian crest. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 18(6):461-498