Chakisaurus nekul Chakisaurus
"elder guanaco lizard"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Chakisaurus 5 m (16.4 ft) long
3 people holding hands
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (100–66 Mya)
- Place
- Argentina
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria
Chakisaurus (meaning “elder guanaco lizard”) is an extinct genus of elasmarian ornithopod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Huincul Formation of Argentina. The genus contains a single species, C. nekul, known from multiple partial skeletons belonging to individuals of different ages. Chakisaurus represents the first ornithischian species to be named from the Huincul Formation.
What we know
- Named by Alvarez Nogueira et al., 2024.
- Fossils found in Argentina.