Ilokelesia Ilokelesia
"flesh"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Ilokelesia 5.3 m (17.4 ft) long
4 people holding hands
- Length
- 5.3 m (17.4 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (95 Mya)
- Place
- Argentina
- Food
- Carnivore
- Clade
- Abelisauridae
Ilokelesia is an extinct genus of abelisaurid theropod dinosaurs, preserved in the layers of the earliest Late Cretaceous of the Huincul Formation (Neuquén Group) in Neuquén Province, Argentina. The only known specimen, consisting of fragmentary elements of the skull and skeleton, was described by Rodolfo Coria and Leonardo Salgado in late 1998.
What we know
- Named by Coria & Salgado, 1998.
- Body length estimated at about 5.3 m.
- Fossils found in Argentina.