Aquilarhinus palimentus
"eagle snout"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Aquilarhinus 9 m (29.5 ft) long
as long as 6 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 9 m (29.5 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (100–66 Mya)
- Place
- United States
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Hadrosauridae Dinosauria Ornithischia Cerapoda Ornithopoda Iguanodontia Duck-billed dinosaurs with tooth batteries.
Aquilarhinus (meaning “eagle snout” after the unusual beak morphology) is a genus of hadrosaurid ornithopod dinosaur from the Aguja Formation from Texas in the United States. The type and only species is Aquilarhinus palimentus. Due to its unusual dentary, it has been inferred to have had shovel-like beak morphology, different from the beaks of other hadrosaurs. It was originally classified as a Kritosaurus sp. before being reclassified as a new genus in 2019.
What we know
- Named by Prieto-Márquez, Wagner and Lehman, 2019.
- Fossils found in United States.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Aquilarhinus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.