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beaked plant-eater
Latirhinus
Say it like this: “la-ti-RIEN-us”
Latirhinus uitstlani
Latirhinus ate plants and walked on two or four 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
- 2012 · Prieto-Márquez, A.; Serrano-Brañas, C. I.
- Hip height
- 2.2 m · 7 ft
- Length
- 8.7 m · 29 ft
- Weight
- 3.8 tonnes
- Found in
- Mexico · Cerro del Pueblo
- Food and walking
- Herbivore · Two or four legs
- Kind
- beaked plant-eater · Ornithopod
- Family branch
- Lambeosaurinae
The story in short
In 2012, A. Prieto-Márquez and C. I. Serrano-Brañas published the name Latirhinus. The name means “broad nose.”
It lived in the Late Cretaceous (Campanian), roughly 83.6 to 72.2 million years ago. Finds come from Mexico, including the Cerro del Pueblo Formation. It was a herbivore and could move on two or four legs.
Published estimates put Latirhinus at a length near 8.7 m, hips about 2.2 m high, and a body mass around 3.8 tonnes.
On the family tree it sits in Lambeosaurinae, among the ornithopod dinosaurs.