Chakisaurus

DV-1229 · type species Chakisaurus nekul

Lived: 110 to 106 million years ago, Early Cretaceous
Diet: Herbivore
Group: Ornithopods
Found in: Argentina
Named by: Nogueira et al. 2024

Field notes

About Chakisaurus

Chakisaurus was a plant-eating ornithopod that lived in the Early Cretaceous, 110 to 106 million years ago.

The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Chakisaurus, from Argentina. Its fossils come from the Huincul Formation. It was named by Nogueira et al. in 2024.

The evidence

Where its fossils were found

Today

1 find

110 million years ago

Map: C. R. Scotese, PALEOMAP

Lived alongside

Found in the same rock formations.

Close relatives

Other members of Elasmaria.

Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: R. A. Nogueira, S. Rozadilla, and F. L. Agnolín, J. A. Garcia Marsà, M. J. Motta, F. E. Novas. 2024. A new ornithopod from the Upper Cretaceous (Huincul Formation) of northwestern Patagonia, Argentina: Implications on elasmarian postcranial anatomy. Cretaceous Research 159