Outline: a typical theropod
Gualicho
- Lived
- 110 to 106 million years ago, Early Cretaceous
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Group
- Theropods
- Found in
- Argentina
- Named by
- Apesteguia et al. 2016
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
110 million years ago
Field notes
About Gualicho
What it was like
Gualicho was a large two-legged predator with very short arms and only two fingers, much like a tyrannosaur. It was not a close relative of the tyrannosaurs, so short arms seem to have evolved several times.
Its world
It lived in the Cretaceous, in what is now Argentina. It comes from the Huincul Formation, where it shared the land with the giant predators Mapusaurus and Meraxes, the abelisaur Skorpiovenator and the huge sauropod Argentinosaurus.
How it was found
Apesteguia and colleagues named Gualicho in 2016. Its name comes from a spirit of local folklore, since the dig had bad luck.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Tyrannosauroidea
Sources: WikidataNamed in: S. Apesteguia, N. D. Smith, and R. J. Valieri, P. J. Makovicky. 2016. An unusual new theropod with a didactyl manus from the Upper Cretaceous of Patagonia, Argentina. PLoS One 11(7):e0157793