Velafrons
"sailed forehead"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Velafrons 7.5 m (24.6 ft) long
as long as 5 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 7.5 m (24.6 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (73.5 Mya)
- Place
- Mexico · India · Colorado, USA
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Hadrosauridae Dinosauria Ornithischia Cerapoda Ornithopoda Iguanodontia Duck-billed dinosaurs with tooth batteries.
Velafrons (meaning “sailed forehead”) is a genus of lambeosaurine hadrosaurid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Mexico. It is known from a mostly complete skull and partial skeleton of a juvenile individual, with a bony crest on the forehead. Its fossils were found in the late Campanian-aged Cerro del Pueblo Formation (about 73.5 million years ago), near Rincon Colorado, Coahuila. The type specimen is CPC-59, and the type species is V. coahuilensis.
What we know
- Named by Gates et al., 2007.
- Body length estimated at about 7.5 m.
- Fossils found in Mexico and India.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Velafrons — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.