Huallasaurus
Field photograph to come
Huallasaurus
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- Lived
- 72 to 66 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ornithopods, Hadrosauridae
- Found in
- Argentina
- Named by
- Rozadilla et al. 2021
Field notes
About Huallasaurus
Huallasaurus was a plant-eating ornithopod that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 72 to 66 million years ago. It belongs to the family Hadrosauridae.
The Paleobiology Database lists 2 finds of Huallasaurus, from Argentina. Its fossils come from the Los Alamitos Formation. It was named by Rozadilla et al. in 2021.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
70 million years ago
Close relatives
Other members of Hadrosauridae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: S. Rozadilla, F. Brissón-Egli, and F. L. Agnolín, A. M. Aranciaga-Rolando, F. E. Novas. 2021. A new hadrosaurid (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) from the Late Cretaceous of northern Patagonia and the radiation of South American hadrosaurids. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 19(17):1207-1235