Mahuidacursor
"mountain runner"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Mahuidacursor 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Cretaceous (145–66 Mya)
- Place
- Argentina
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Mahuidacursor (meaning “mountain runner”, mahuida meaning “mountain” in Mapudungun) is a genus of basal ornithopod dinosaur from the Santonian Bajo de la Carpa Formation of the Neuquén Basin in northern Patagonia, Argentina. The type and only species is M. lipanglef.
What we know
- Named by Cruzado Caballero et al. 2019.
- Fossils found in Argentina.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Mahuidacursor — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.