Coahuilasaurus lipani Coahuilasaurus
"Coahuila lizard"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Coahuilasaurus 9 m (29.5 ft) long
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- Length
- 9 m (29.5 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (72.5 Mya)
- Place
- Mexico
- Food
- Herbivore
Coahuilasaurus (meaning “Coahuila lizard”) is an extinct genus of kritosaurin ornithopod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous (Campanian) Cerro del Pueblo Formation of Coahuila, Mexico. The genus contains a single species, C. lipani, known from the associated tips of the upper and lower jaw and other fragmentary skull bones. It is a large kritosaurin with an estimated body length of 8 – 9 m and body mass of over 4 MT.
What we know
- Named by Longrich et al., 2024.
- Body length estimated at about 9 m.
- Fossils found in Mexico.