Guemesia
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Guemesia
DV-1138 · type species Guemesia ochoai
- Lived
- 84 to 66 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Group
- Theropods, Abelisauridae
- Found in
- Argentina
- Named by
- Agnolín et al. 2021
Field notes
About Guemesia
Guemesia was a meat-eating theropod that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 84 to 66 million years ago. It belongs to the family Abelisauridae.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Guemesia, from Argentina. Its fossils come from the Los Blanquitos Formation. It was named by Agnolín et al. in 2021.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
75 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Abelisauridae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: F. L. Agnolín, M. A. Cerroni, and A. Scanferla, A. Goswami, A. Paulina-Carabajal, T. Halliday, A. R. Cuff, S. Reuil. 2021. First definitive abelisaurid theropod from the Late Cretaceous of Northwestern Argentina. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 41(4):e2202348:1-17