Outline: a typical ornithopod
Velafrons
"sailed forehead"
- Lived
- 84 to 72 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ornithopods, Hadrosauridae
- Found in
- Mexico
- Named by
- Gates et al. 2007
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
80 million years ago
Field notes
About Velafrons
What it was like
Velafrons was a lambeosaurine duckbill, a plant eater with a crest on its forehead. The known skull comes from a young animal, so its crest was still small. Adults probably had a bigger crest, like their relative Corythosaurus.
Its world
It lived in the Late Cretaceous, in what is now Mexico. It comes from the Cerro del Pueblo Formation, a coastal land shared with the crested duckbill Tlatolophus, the ornithomimid Mexidracon and the tyrannosaur Labocania.
How it was found
Gates and colleagues named Velafrons in 2007.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Hadrosauridae
Sources: 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