Outline: a typical ornithopod
Kelumapusaura
"red earth lizard"
Type species Kelumapusaura machi
- Lived
- 72 to 66 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ornithopods, Hadrosauridae
- Found in
- Argentina
- Named by
- Rozadilla et al. 2021
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
70 million years ago
Field notes
About Kelumapusaura
What it was like
Kelumapusaura was a duckbill, a plant eater with a broad beak and grinding teeth. It was a relative of Kritosaurus. Duckbills reached South America from the north late in the Cretaceous.
Its world
It lived about 72 to 66 million years ago, near the end of the Cretaceous, in what is now Argentina. It comes from the Allen Formation, where it shared the land with the long-snouted hunter Austroraptor, the abelisaur Abelisaurus and the titanosaurs Aeolosaurus and Neuquensaurus.
How it was found
Rozadilla and colleagues named Kelumapusaura in 2021. The type species is Kelumapusaura machi. It is known from a bone bed with many animals.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Hadrosauridae
Sources: WikidataNamed in: S. Rozadilla, F. Brissón-Egli, and F. L. Agnolín, A. M. Aranciaga-Rolando, F. E. Novas. 2021. A new hadrosaurid (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) from the Late Cretaceous of northern Patagonia and the radiation of South American hadrosaurids. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 19(17):1207-1235