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Velafrons coahuilensis

Reptilia - Hadrosauridae

Taxonomy
Velafrons coahuilensis was named by Gates et al. (2007). Its type specimen is CPC-59, a partial skeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. 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.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2007Velafrons coahuilensis Gates et al. p. 918 figs. 2-9
2010Velafrons coahuilensis Evans p. 404
2010Velafrons coahuilensis Prieto-Marquez and Salinas p. 824
2010Velafrons coahuilensis Prieto-Márquez p. 5 fig. 2
2010Velafrons coahuilensis Prieto-Márquez and Norell p. 26
2010Velafrons coahuilensis Prieto-Márquez and Wagner p. 1243 fig. 3
2011Velafrons coahuilensis Brink et al. p. 63
2011Velafrons coahuilensis Prieto-Márquez p. 64
2011Velafrons coahuilensis Sullivan et al. p. 417
2012Velafrons coahuilensis Godefroit et al. p. 536
2012Velafrons coahuilensis Prieto-Marquez et al. p. 7
2012Velafrons coahuilensis Prieto-Márquez p. 527
2012Velafrons coahuilensis Ramírez-Velasco et al. p. 380
2013Velafrons coahuilensis Cruzado-Caballero et al.
2013Velafrons coahuilensis Farke et al. p. 64
2014Velafrons coahuilensis Brink et al. p. 245
2014Velafrons coahuilensis Gates et al. p. 159
2014Velafrons coahuilensis Guzmán-Gutiérrez and Rivera-Sylva p. 10
2014Velafrons coahuilensis Ramírez-Velasco et al. p. 347
2014Velafrons coahuilensis Rivera-Sylva and Carpenter p. 165
2017Velafrons coahuilensis Cruzado-Caballero and Powell p. 12 fig. 13
2019Velafrons coahuilensis Takasaki et al. p. 5
2021Velafrons coahuilensis Holland et al. p. 11

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
RankNameAuthor
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
—Ornithodira
—Dinosauromorpha
—Dinosauriformes
—Dinosauria()
—Ornithischia()
—Genasauria
—Cerapoda
—Ornithopoda()
—Clypeodonta
—Iguanodontia()
—Dryomorpha
—Styracosterna
—Hadrosauriformes
—Hadrosauroidea()
familyHadrosauridae
subfamilyLambeosaurinae
tribeCorythosauriniGlut 1997
genusVelafrons
speciescoahuilensis

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Velafrons coahuilensis Gates et al. 2007
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: hydroxyapatiteo
Entire body: yeso
Adult length: 10 to < 100o
Adult width: 1.0 to < 10o
Adult height: 1.0 to < 10o
Architecture: compact or denseo
Ontogeny: accretion, modification of partso
Grouping: gregariouso
Environment: terrestrialo
Locomotion: actively mobileo
Life habit: ground dwellingo
Diet: herbivoresubo
Reproduction: oviparouso
Dispersal: direct/internalo
Dispersal 2: mobileo
Created: 2009-01-03 20:40:05
Modified: 2009-01-03 22:40:05
Source: subo = suborder, o = order
References: Benton 1983, Marsh 1875

Age range: Late/Upper Campanian or 83.50000 to 70.60000 Ma

Collections (2 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Campanian83.5 - 70.6Mexico (Coahuila) Lambeosaurus sp. (type locality: 76745) Velafrons coahuilensis (170998)