Huallasaurus Huallasaurus
"duck lizard"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Huallasaurus 9 m (29.5 ft) long
6 people holding hands
- Length
- 9 m (29.5 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (85–66 Mya)
- Place
- South America · Argentina
- Food
- Herbivore
Huallasaurus (meaning “duck lizard”) is an extinct genus of saurolophine hadrosaur from the Late Cretaceous Los Alamitos Formation of Patagonia in Argentina. The type and only species is H. australis. Originally named as a species of Kritosaurus in 1984, it was long considered a synonym of Secernosaurus before being recognized as its own distinct genus in a 2022 study, different from other members of Kritosaurini.
What we know
- Named by (Bonaparte et al., 1984).
- Fossils found in South America and Argentina.