Guemesia ochoai Guemesia
"Etymology TBD"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Guemesia 5 m (16.4 ft) long
3 people holding hands
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (72 Mya)
- Place
- Argentina
- Food
- Carnivore
- Clade
- Abelisauridae
Guemesia (named after Martín Miguel de Güemes, whose death bicentenary was in 2021) is a genus of abelisaurid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Los Blanquitos Formation of Salta Province, Argentina. The type and only species is Guemesia ochoai, known from a nearly complete braincase. It is one of the smallest abelisaurids currently known.
What we know
- Named by Agnolín et al., 2022.
- Fossils found in Argentina.