Guemesia
Name: Guemesia
(named after Mart�n Miguel de G�emes).
Phonetic: Gue-me-se-ah.
Named By: Federico L. Agnol�n, Mauricio A.
Cerroni, Agust�n Scanferla, Anjali Goswami, Ariana
Paulina-Carabajal, Thomas Halliday, Andrew R. Cuff &
Santiago Reuil - 2022.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia, Dinosauria,
Theropoda, Abelisauridae.
Species: G. ochoai (type).
Diet: Carnivore.
Size: Uncertain due to lack of fossil remains.
Known locations: Argentina - Los Blanquitos
Formation.
Time period: Campanian of the Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Almost complete braincase.
Guemesia
is a genus of abelisaurid
dinosaur that lived in South America during
the late Cretaceous. At the time of writing Guemesia
is known only
from a braincase, which makes physical details beyond generic
abelisaurid traits hard to determine. The size of the braincase
however suggests that Guemesia may have actually
been quite small, at
least compared to other abelisaurid dinosaurs.
Further reading
- First definitive abelisaurid theropod from the Late Cretaceous of
Northwestern Argentina. - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 41
(4) - Federico L. Agnol�n, Mauricio A. Cerroni, Agust�n
Scanferla, Anjali Goswami, Ariana Paulina-Carabajal, Thomas
Halliday, Andrew R. Cuff & Santiago Reuil - 2022.
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