Jakapil
Field photograph to come
Jakapil
DV-1178
- Lived
- 113 to 110 million years ago, Early Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Early armored dinosaurs
- Found in
- Argentina
- Named by
- Riguetti et al. 2022
Field notes
About Jakapil
Jakapil was a plant-eating early armored dinosaur that lived in the Early Cretaceous, 113 to 110 million years ago.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Jakapil, from Argentina. Its fossils come from the Candeleros Formation. It was named by Riguetti et al. in 2022.
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 Thyreophoroidea.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: F. J. Riguetti, S. Apesteguía, and X. Pereda-Suberbiola. 2022. A new Cretaceous thyreophoran from Patagonia supports a South American lineage of armoured dinosaurs. Scientific Reports 12:11621:1-12