Mahuidacursor

Field photograph to come

DV-1067Bajo de la Carpa Fm., Argentina

Mahuidacursor

DV-1067

Lived
86 to 84 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
Diet
Herbivore
Group
Ornithopods
Found in
Argentina
Named by
Cruzado-Caballero et al. 2019

Field notes

About Mahuidacursor

Mahuidacursor was a plant-eating ornithopod that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 86 to 84 million years ago.

The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Mahuidacursor, from Argentina. Its fossils come from the Bajo de la Carpa Formation. It was named by Cruzado-Caballero et al. in 2019.

The evidence

Where its fossils were found

Today

1 find

80 million years ago

Map: C. R. Scotese, PALEOMAP

Lived alongside

Found in the same rock formations.

Close relatives

Other members of Elasmaria.

Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: P. Cruzado-Caballero, J. M. Gasca, and L. S. Filippi, I. A. Cerda, A. C. Garrido. 2019. A new ornithopod dinosaur from the Santonian of northern Patagonia (Rincón de los Sauces, Argentina). Cretaceous Research 98:211-229