Velafrons
Field photograph to come
Velafrons
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- Lived
- 84 to 72 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ornithopods, Hadrosauridae
- Found in
- Mexico
- Named by
- Gates et al. 2007
Field notes
About Velafrons
Velafrons 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 Velafrons, from Mexico. Its fossils come from the Cerro del Pueblo Formation. It was named by Gates et al. in 2007.
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: T. A. Gates, S. D. Sampson, and C. R. Delgado de Jesús, L. E. Zanno, D. A. Eberth, E. Hernández-Rivera, M. C. Aguillón Martínez, J. I. Kirkland. 2007. Velafrons coahuilensis, a new lambeosaurine hadrosaurid (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) from the late Campanian Cerro del Pueblo Formation, Coahuila, Mexico. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27(4):917-930