Ugrunaaluk
Field photograph to come
Ugrunaaluk
DV-0967
- Lived
- 72 to 66 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ornithopods, Hadrosauridae
- Found in
- United States
- Named by
- Mori et al. 2016
Field notes
About Ugrunaaluk
Ugrunaaluk was a plant-eating ornithopod that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 72 to 66 million years ago. It belongs to the family Hadrosauridae.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Ugrunaaluk, from Alaska. Its fossils come from the Prince Creek Formation. It was named by Mori et al. in 2016.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
70 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Hadrosauridae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: H. Mori, P. S. Druckenmiller, and G. M. Erickson. 2016. A new Arctic hadrosaurid from the Prince Creek Formation (lower Maastrichtian) of northern Alaska. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 60(1):15-32