Gonkoken nanoi
"similar to a wild duck or swan"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Gonkoken 4 m (13.1 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 4 m (13.1 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (71.7–66 Mya)
- Place
- Chile · Argentina
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Gonkoken (meaning “similar to a wild duck or swan”) is an extinct genus of hadrosauroid ornithopod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Dorotea Formation of Chilean Patagonia. The genus contains a single species, Gonkoken nanoi, known from disarticulated bones of multiple individuals.
What we know
- Named by Alarcón-Muñoz et al., 2023.
- Body length estimated at about 4 m.
- Fossils found in Chile and Argentina.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Gonkoken — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.