Malefica deckerti Prieto-Márquez and Wagner 2023 (hadrosaurid)

Reptilia - Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae

Full reference: A. Prieto-Márquez and J. R. Wagner. 2023. A new ‘duck-billed’ dinosaur (Ornithischia: Hadrosauridae) from the upper Campanian of Texas points to a greater diversity of early hadrosaurid offshoots. Cretaceous Research 143:105416

Belongs to Malefica according to A. Prieto-Márquez and J. R. Wagner 2023

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: TxVP 41917-1, a maxilla (partial left maxilla). Its type locality is TMM 41917/41918, Mesa de Anguila, which is in a Campanian/Campanian levee horizon in the Aguja Formation of Texas.

Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore

Distribution: found only at TMM 41917/41918, Mesa de Anguila

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