Gualicho
Genus of theropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous period / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Not to be confused with Gualichu, a Mapuche evil spirit.
Gualicho (named in reference to the gualichu) is a genus of theropod dinosaur. The type species is Gualicho shinyae. It lived in what is now northern Patagonia, on what was then a South American island continent split off from the supercontinent Gondwana. The fossils were found in the Huincul Formation, dating to the late Cenomanian-early Turonian age of the upper Cretaceous Period, around 91 million years ago.
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Gualicho | |
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Speculative skeletal reconstruction, with known elements in white | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | Saurischia |
Clade: | Theropoda |
Clade: | Neotheropoda |
Clade: | Averostra |
Genus: | †Gualicho Apesteguía et al., 2016 |
Type species | |
†Gualicho shinyae Apesteguía et al., 2016 |
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