Sektensaurus

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Lived: 84 to 66 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
Diet: Herbivore
Group: Ornithopods
Found in: Argentina
Named by: Ibiricu et al. 2019

Field notes

About Sektensaurus

Sektensaurus was a plant-eating ornithopod that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 84 to 66 million years ago.

The Paleobiology Database lists 2 finds of Sektensaurus, from Argentina. Its fossils come from the Lago Colhué Huapi Formation. It was named by Ibiricu et al. in 2019.

The evidence

Where its fossils were found

Today

2 finds

75 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: L. M. Ibiricu, G. A. Casal, and R. D. Martínez, M. Luna, J. I. Canale, B. N. Alvarez, B. González Riga. 2019. A new ornithopod dinosaur (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) from the Late Cretaceous of central Patagonia. Cretaceous Research 98:276-291