Huehuecanauhtlus
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Huehuecanauhtlus
DV-0823 · type species Huehuecanauhtlus tiquichensis
- Lived
- 86 to 84 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ornithopods
- Found in
- Mexico
- Named by
- Ramírez-Velasco et al. 2012
Field notes
About Huehuecanauhtlus
Huehuecanauhtlus was a plant-eating ornithopod that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 86 to 84 million years ago.
The Paleobiology Database lists 2 finds of Huehuecanauhtlus, from Mexico. Its fossils come from the Cutzamala Formation. It was named by Ramírez-Velasco et al. in 2012.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
80 million years ago
Close relatives
Other members of Hadrosauroidea.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: A. A. Ramírez-Velasco, M. Benammi, and A. Prieto-Marquez, J. Alvarado Ortega, R. Hernández-Rivera. 2012. Huehuecanauhtlus tiquichensis, a new hadrosauroid dinosaur (Ornithischia: Ornithopoda) from the Santonian (Late Cretaceous) of Michoacán, Mexico. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 49:379-395