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sharp-clawed runner
Labocania
Say it like this: “lah-boh-KAHN-ee-a”
Labocania anomala
Labocania ate meat and walked on two legs. It lived in the Late Cretaceous. Bones have been found in Mexico.
- When
- Late Cretaceous (Campanian) · roughly 83.6 to 72.2 million years ago
- Named in
- 1974 · Molnar, R. E.
- Hip height
- Not established
- Length
- 6.3–8.2 m · 21–27 ft
- Weight
- 1.5–2.6 tonnes
- Found in
- Mexico · La Bocana Roja
- Food and walking
- Carnivore · Two legs
- Kind
- sharp-clawed runner · Theropod
- Family branch
- Tyrannosauroidea
The story in short
The genus Labocania dates to 1974, the year R. E. Molnar described it. The name honors a person tied to the fossil or its study.
Fossils referred to Labocania date to the Late Cretaceous (Campanian), roughly 83.6 to 72.2 million years ago. Finds come from Mexico, including the La Bocana Roja Formation. It was a carnivore and walked on two legs.
Published estimates put Labocania at a length near 6.3–8.2 m and a body mass around 1.5–2.6 tonnes.
On the family tree it sits in Tyrannosauroidea, among the theropod dinosaurs.
Close relatives
Alectrosaurus
Alectrosaurus olseni
Late Cretaceous (Campanian) · roughly 83.6 to 72.2 million years ago
Aviatyrannis
Aviatyrannis jurassica
Late Jurassic (Oxfordian · Kimmeridgian · Tithonian) · roughly 161.5 to 143.1 million years ago
Calamosaurus
Calamosaurus foxi
Early Cretaceous (Barremian) · roughly 125.8 to 121.4 million years ago