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Velafrons
Temporal range: Upper Cretaceous
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Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Sauropsida
Superorder:
Dinosauria
Order:
Ornithischia
Family:
Hadrosauridae
Subfamily:
Lambeosaurinae
Genus:
Velafrons

Gates et al., 2007
Species
  • V. coahuilensis Gates et al., 2007 (type)

Velafrons (meaning "sailed forehead") is a genus of hadrosaurid dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of Mexico. Its fossils were found in the Upper Cretaceous Cerro del Pueblo Formation (about 73.5 million years old), near Rincon Colorado, Coahuila, Mexico. The type specimen is CPC-59, and the type species is V. coahuilensis.

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  • Velafrons coahuilensis skull

    Skull of Velafrons

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Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Velafrons coahuilensis para niños

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