Latirhinus uitstlani Latirhinus
"broad nose"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Latirhinus 8.7 m (28.5 ft) long
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- Length
- 8.7 m (28.5 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (72.5 Mya)
- Place
- South America · North America · Mexico
- Food
- Herbivore
Latirhinus (meaning “broad nose” from the Latin latus (broad) and Greek ῥίς, rhis (nose)) is an extinct genus of lambeosaurine hadrosaurid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Mexico. The type species, Latirhinus uitstlani, was named in 2012 on the basis of a partial skeleton from the Campanian-age Cerro del Pueblo Formation. The specific name uitstlani means “southern” in the Náhuatl language of Mexico, a reference to the species’ southern occurrence in the Cretaceous landmass Laramidia.
What we know
- Named by Prieto-Márquez and Serrano-Brañas, 2012.
- Body length estimated at about 8.7 m.
- Fossils found in South America and North America.