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beaked plant-eater · Disputed
Delapparentia
Delapparentia turolensis
Delapparentia ate plants and moved in a way the fossils do not settle. It lived in the Early Cretaceous. Bones have been found in Spain.
- When
- Early Cretaceous (Barremian) · roughly 125.8 to 121.4 million years ago
- Named in
- 2011 · Ruiz-Omeñaca, J. I.
- Hip height
- Not established
- Length
- Not established
- Weight
- Not established
- Found in
- Spain · Camarillas
- Food and walking
- Herbivore · Not recorded
- Kind
- beaked plant-eater · Ornithopod
- Family branch
- Styracosterna
The story in short
The genus Delapparentia dates to 2011, the year J. I. Ruiz-Omeñaca described it. The name honors a person tied to the fossil or its study.
Fossils referred to Delapparentia date to the Early Cretaceous (Barremian), roughly 125.8 to 121.4 million years ago. Finds come from Spain, including the Camarillas Formation. It was a herbivore. A habitual gait is not settled.
The fossils of Delapparentia are too incomplete for a responsible length, hip height, or weight, so those fields are left blank on purpose.
On the family tree it sits in Styracosterna, among the ornithopod dinosaurs.
Close relatives
Bayannurosaurus
Bayannurosaurus perfectus
Early Cretaceous (Aptian) · roughly 121.4 to 113.2 million years ago
Calvarius
Calvarius rapidus
Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) · roughly 72.2 to 66 million years ago
Cedrorestes
Cedrorestes crichtoni
Early Cretaceous (Aptian) · roughly 121.4 to 113.2 million years ago