Malefica

DV-1212 · type species Malefica deckerti

Lived: 84 to 72 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
Diet: Herbivore
Group: Ornithopods, Hadrosauridae
Found in: United States
Named by: Prieto-Márquez and Wagner 2023

Field notes

About Malefica

Malefica 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 Malefica, from Texas. Its fossils come from the Aguja Formation. It was named by Prieto-Márquez and Wagner in 2023.

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 Hadrosauridae.

Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: A. Prieto-Márquez and J. R. Wagner. 2023. A new ‘duck-billed’ dinosaur (Ornithischia: Hadrosauridae) from the upper Campanian of Texas points to a greater diversity of early hadrosaurid offshoots. Cretaceous Research 143:105416