Kelumapusaura

Name: Kelumapusaura ‭(‬red earth lizard‭)‬.
Phonetic: ‭ ‬Ke-lu-ma-pu-sor-rah.
Named By: Sebasti�n Rozadilla,‭ ‬Federico Briss�n Egli,‭ ‬Federico Agnolin,‭ ‬Alexis Mauro Aranciaga-Rolando‭ & ‬Fernando Emilio Novas‭ ‬-‭ ‬2022.
Classification: Chordata,‭ ‬Reptilia,‭ ‬Dinosauria,‭ ‬Ornithischia,‭ ‬Ornithopoda,‭ ‬Hadrosauridae,‭ ‬Saurolophinae,‭ ‬Kritosaurini.‭
Species: K.‭ ‬machi‭ (‬type‭)‬.
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Estimated between‭ ‬8‭ ‬and‭ ‬9‭ ‬meters long.
Known locations: Argentina,‭ ‬Patagonia‭ ‬-‭ ‬Allen Formation.
Time period: Campanian/Maastrichtian of the Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Partial remains of several individuals.

       Kelumapusaura is a genus of hadrosaurid dinosaur that lived in South America during the late Cretaceous.‭ ‬The establishment of Kelumapusaura was born out of the discovery of a bone bed of at least several individuals.

Further reading
-‭ ‬A new hadrosaurid‭ (‬Dinosauria:‭ ‬Ornithischia‭) ‬from the Late Cretaceous of northern Patagonia and the radiation of South American hadrosaurids.‭ ‬-‭ ‬Journal of Systematic Palaeontology‭ ‬-‭ ‬Sebasti�n Rozadilla,‭ ‬Federico Briss�n Egli,‭ ‬Federico Agnolin,‭ ‬Alexis Mauro Aranciaga-Rolando‭ & ‬Fernando Emilio Novas‭ ‬-‭ ‬2022.

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