Reptilia - Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
Full reference: T. A. Gates, S. D. Sampson, C. R. Delgado Jesús, L. E. Zanno, D. A. Eberth, E. Hernández-Rivera, M. C. Aguillón Martínez and J. I. Kirkland. 2007. Velafrons coahuilensis, a new lambeosaurine hadrosaurid (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) from the late Campanian Cerro del Pueblo Formation, Coahuila, Mexico. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27(4):917-930
Belongs to Velafrons according to B. Holland et al. 2021
See also Brink et al. 2011, Brink et al. 2014, Cruzado-Caballero et al. 2013, Cruzado-Caballero and Powell 2017, Evans 2010, Farke et al. 2013, Gates et al. 2014, Gates et al. 2007, Godefroit et al. 2012, Guzmán-Gutiérrez and Rivera-Sylva 2014, Prieto-Márquez 2010, Prieto-Márquez 2010, Prieto-Márquez 2011, Prieto-Márquez 2012, Prieto-Marquez et al. 2012, Prieto-Márquez and Norell 2010, Prieto-Marquez and Salinas 2010, Prieto-Márquez and Wagner 2010, Ramírez-Velasco et al. 2012, Ramírez-Velasco et al. 2014, Rivera-Sylva and Carpenter 2014, Sullivan et al. 2011 and Takasaki et al. 2019
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: CPC-59, a partial skeleton. Its type locality is Cerro de los Dinosaurios, 7A Quarry, which is in a Campanian estuary/bay mudstone in the Cerro del Pueblo Formation of Mexico.
Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Mexico (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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