Ilokelesia
Field photograph to come
Ilokelesia
DV-0463
- Lived
- 110 to 106 million years ago, Early Cretaceous
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Group
- Theropods, Abelisauridae
- Found in
- Argentina
- Named by
- Coria and Salgado 2000
Field notes
About Ilokelesia
Ilokelesia was a meat-eating theropod that lived in the Early Cretaceous, 110 to 106 million years ago. It belongs to the family Abelisauridae.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Ilokelesia, from Argentina. Its fossils come from the Huincul Formation. It was named by Coria and Salgado in 2000.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
110 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Abelisauridae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: R. A. Coria and L. Salgado. 2000. A basal Abelisauria Novas, 1992 (Theropoda–Ceratosauria) from the Cretaceous of Patagonia, Argentina. GAIA 15:89-102