Huehuecanauhtlus tiquichensis
"ancient"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Huehuecanauhtlus 6 m (19.7 ft) long
as long as 4 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 6 m (19.7 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (85.8–83.5 Mya)
- Place
- Mexico
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Huehuecanauhtlus is a genus of hadrosauroid dinosaur known from the Late Cretaceous (Santonian stage) of Michoacán, western Mexico. It contains a single species, Huehuecanauhtlus tiquichensis.
What we know
- Named by Ramírez-Velasco et al., 2012.
- Body length estimated at about 6 m.
- Fossils found in Mexico.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Huehuecanauhtlus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.