Latirhinus
Field photograph to come
Latirhinus
DV-0826 · type species Latirhinus uitstlani
- Lived
- 84 to 72 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ornithopods, Hadrosauridae
- Found in
- Mexico
- Named by
- Prieto-Márquez and Serrano Brañas 2012
Field notes
About Latirhinus
Latirhinus was a plant-eating ornithopod that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 84 to 72 million years ago. It belongs to the family Hadrosauridae.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Latirhinus, from Mexico. Its fossils come from the Cerro del Pueblo Formation. It was named by Prieto-Márquez and Serrano Brañas in 2012.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
80 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Hadrosauridae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: A. Prieto-Márquez and C. I. Serrano Brañas. 2012. Latirhinus uitstlani, a ‘broad-nosed’ saurolophine hadrosaurid (Dinosauria, Ornithopoda) from the late Campanian (Cretaceous) of northern Mexico. Historical Biology 24(6):607-619