Chakisaurus
Sign in to saveChakisaurus (meaning "elder guanaco lizard") is an extinct genus of elasmarian ornithopod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Huincul Formation of Argentina. The genus contains a single species, C. nekul, known from multiple partial skeletons belonging to individuals of different ages. Chakisaurus represents the first ornithischian species to be named from the Huincul Formation.
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- Parent taxon
- Elasmaria
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- taxon name
- Chakisaurus
- taxon rank
- genus
- time period
- Late Cretaceous
- location of discovery
- Argentina
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Chakisaurus (meaning "elder guanaco lizard") is an extinct genus of elasmarian ornithopod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Huincul Formation of Argentina. The genus contains a single species, C. nekul, known from multiple partial skeletons belonging to individuals of different ages. Chakisaurus represents the first ornithischian species to be named from the Huincul Formation.
== Discovery and naming ==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Chakisaurus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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