Huehuecanauhtlus tiquichensis Ramírez-Velasco et al. 2012 (ornithopod)

Reptilia - Ornithischia

Full reference: A. A. Ramírez-Velasco, M. Benammi, A. Prieto-Marquez, J. Alvarado Ortega, and R. Hernández-Rivera. 2012. Huehuecanauhtlus tiquichensis, a new hadrosauroid dinosaur (Ornithischia: Ornithopoda) from the Santonian (Late Cretaceous) of Michoacán, Mexico. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 49:379-395

Belongs to Huehuecanauhtlus according to A. A. Ramírez-Velasco et al. 2012

See also Prieto-Márquez et al. 2016, Ramírez-Velasco et al. 2014 and Rivera-Sylva and Carpenter 2014

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: IGM 6253, a partial skeleton. Its type locality is Barranca Los Bonetes (f6), which is in a Santonian terrestrial sandstone in the Cutzamala Formation of Mexico.

Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Mexico (2 collections)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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