Gualicho

Field photograph to come

DV-0951Huincul Fm., Argentina

Gualicho

DV-0951

Lived
110 to 106 million years ago, Early Cretaceous
Diet
Carnivore
Group
Theropods
Found in
Argentina
Named by
Apesteguia et al. 2016

Field notes

About Gualicho

Gualicho was a meat-eating theropod that lived in the Early Cretaceous, 110 to 106 million years ago.

The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Gualicho, from Argentina. Its fossils come from the Huincul Formation. It was named by Apesteguia et al. in 2016.

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 Tyrannosauroidea.

Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: S. Apesteguia, N. D. Smith, and R. J. Valieri, P. J. Makovicky. 2016. An unusual new theropod with a didactyl manus from the Upper Cretaceous of Patagonia, Argentina. PLoS One 11(7):e0157793