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beaked plant-eater
Velafrons
Say it like this: “VEE-luh-FRONZ”
Velafrons coahuilensis
Velafrons 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
- 2007 · Gates, T. A.; Sampson, S. D.; De Jesús, C. R. D.; Zanno, L. E.; Eberth, D.; Hernández-Rivera, R.; Martínez, M. C. A.; Kirkland, J. I.
- Hip height
- Not established
- Length
- 7.5 m · 25 ft
- Weight
- 2.5 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 2007, T. A. Gates and colleagues published the name Velafrons.
Fossils referred to Velafrons date to 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 Velafrons at a length near 7.5 m and a body mass around 2.5 tonnes.
On the family tree it sits in Lambeosaurinae, among the ornithopod dinosaurs.