Species

Valid Extinct

Velafrons coahuilensis

Gates et al. 2007

No Wikipedia summary available.

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

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Velafrons coahuilensis Species

Fossil sites 2 geolocated sites

Distribution

Top countries

🇲🇽 Mexico

Geological formations

Cerro del Pueblo

Temporal distribution

Campanian (83.6–72.2 Ma)

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 ↗