Genus

Valid Extinct

Velafrons

sail forehead

Gates et al. 2007

Etymology De l’Espagnol ''vela'' la voile, et du Latin ''frons'', le front, en référence à la crête en forme de voile ornant le front de cet hadrosaure.

Velafrons is a genus of lambeosaurine hadrosaurid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Mexico. It is known from a mostly complete skull and partial skeleton of a juvenile individual, with a bony crest on the forehead. Its fossils were found in the late Campanian-aged Cerro del Pueblo Formation, near Rincon Colorado, Coahuila. The type specimen is CPC-59, and the type species is V. coahuilensis.

Temporal range

Triassic

Jurassic

Cretaceous

Paleogene

Neogene

252 201 145 66 0 Ma

PBDB occurrences

Group

Dinosaures

Herbivore Ground dwelling, gregarious Terrestrial

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Classification

Dinosauria Unranked clade

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Ornithischia Unranked clade

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Neornithischia Unranked clade

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Pyrodontia Unranked clade

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Cerapoda Unranked clade

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Ornithopoda Suborder

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Iguanodontia Infraorder

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Euiguanodontia Unranked clade

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Dryomorpha Unranked clade

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Ankylopollexia Unranked clade

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Styracosterna Unranked clade

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Hadrosauriformes Unranked clade

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Hadrosauroidea Unranked clade

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Hadrosauridae Family

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Lambeosaurinae Subfamily

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Corythosaurini Tribe

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Velafrons Genus

Fossil sites 2 geolocated sites

Distribution

Top countries

🇲🇽 Mexico

Geological formations

Cerro del Pueblo

Temporal distribution

Campanian (83.6–72.2 Ma)

Species (1)

Velafrons coahuilensis 84 Ma

News 1

Corythosaurus: Beast of the Week

crest Canada Corythosaurus Hadrosauridae Hypacrosaurus +3

This week we will take a look at a well known duckbill dinosaur. Enter Corythosaurus! Corythosaurus was a plant eater that belonged to the lambiosaurine group within the family, Hadrosauridae. (duckbills) Lambiosaurine hadrosaurs typically had hollow crests on their heads and narrower beaks compared to other kinds hadrosaurs. It was closely related to other lambiosaurine hadrosaurs such as Parasaurolophus, Hypacrosaurus, Lambeosaurus, and Velafrons. It lived in what is now Alberta, Canada,

15/02/2026 prehistoricbeastoftheweek

Images 1

Bibliography

Original description

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 DOI ↗

Bibliography (2)

S. Rybakiewicz, H. E. Rivera-Sylva, and W. Stinnesbeck, E. Frey, J. R. Guzmán-Gutiérrez, R. Vivas González, R. L. Nava Rodríguez, J. M. Padilla-Gutiérrez. 2019. Hadrosaurs from Cañada Ancha (Cerro del Pueblo Formation; upper Campanian-?lower Maastrichtian), Coahuila, northeastern Mexico. Cretaceous Research 104:104199 DOI ↗