Gonkoken
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Gonkoken
DV-1204 · type species Gonkoken nanoi
- Lived
- 72 to 66 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ornithopods
- Found in
- Chile
- Named by
- Alarcón-Muñoz et al. 2023
Field notes
About Gonkoken
Gonkoken was a plant-eating ornithopod that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 72 to 66 million years ago.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Gonkoken, from Chile. Its fossils come from the Dorotea Formation. It was named by Alarcón-Muñoz et al. in 2023.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
70 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Hadrosauroidea.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: J. Alarcón-Muñoz, A. O. Vargas, and H. P. Püschel, S. Soto-Acuña, L. Manríquez, M. Leppe, J. Kaluza, V. Milla, C. S. Gutstein, J. Palma-Liberona, W. Stinnesbeck, E. Frey, J. P. Pino, D. Bajor, E. Núñez, H. Ortiz, D. Rubilar-Rogers, P. Cruzado-Caballero. 2023. Relict duck-billed dinosaurs survived into the last age of the dinosaurs in subantarctic Chile. Science Advances 9:eadg2456:1-17