Chakisaurus nekul
"elder guanaco lizard"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Chakisaurus 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (100–66 Mya)
- Place
- Argentina
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
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.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Chakisaurus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.