Huehuecanauhtlus

Name: Huehuecanauhtlus ‭(‬Ancient duck‭)‬.
Phonetic: Hway-hway-can-a-uh-tlus.
Named By: A.‭ ‬A.‭ ‬Ram�rez-Velasco,‭ ‬M.‭ ‬Benammi,‭ ‬A.‭ ‬Prieto-Marquez,‭ ‬J.‭ ‬Alvarado Ortega‭ & ‬R.‭ ‬Hern�ndez-Rivera‭ ‬-‭ ‬2012.
Classification: Chordata,‭ ‬Reptilia,‭ ‬Dinosauria,‭ ‬Ornithischia,‭ ‬Ornithopoda,‭ ‬Hadrosauroidea.
Species: H.‭ ‬tiquichensis‭ (‬type‭)‬.
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Uncertain due to lack of remains,‭ ‬but very roughly esitmated to be about‭ ‬5.5-6‭ ‬meters long.
Known locations: Mexico,‭ ‬Michoac�n.
Time period: Santonian of the Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: At least two individuals composed of partial skull and post cranial skeletal remains.




       Huehuecanauhtlus easily has one of the hardest genus names to pronounce of any dinosaur.‭ ‬That aside,‭ ‬Huehuecanauhtlus was a genus of hadrosauroid dinosaurs that lived in what is now Mexico during the late Cretaceous.‭ ‬The region that the Huehuecanauhtlus holotypes are known from would have been near the southern tip of the landmass once known as Laramidia which stretched was made of up the far western portion of North America,‭ ‬all the way from Mexico to Canada.
       As of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries,‭ ‬a picture is slowly emerging of Mexico having a very similar collection of dinosaur types as the rest of North America during the Cretacecous,‭ ‬with a diverse range of hadrosaurs,‭ ‬ceratopsians,‭ ‬and probably even tyrannosaurs

Further reading
-‭ ‬Huehuecanauhtlus tiquichensis,‭ ‬a new hadrosauroid dinosaur‭ (‬Ornithischia:‭ ‬Ornithopoda‭) ‬from the Santonian‭ (‬Late Cretaceous‭) ‬of Michoac�n,‭ ‬Mexico‭ ‬-‭ ‬Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences‭ ‬49‭ (‬2‭)‬:‭ ‬379‭–‬395.‭ ‬-‭ ‬A.‭ ‬A.‭ ‬Ram�rez-Velasco,‭ ‬M.‭ ‬Benammi,‭ ‬A.‭ ‬Prieto-Marquez,‭ ‬J.‭ ‬Alvarado Ortega‭ & ‬R.‭ ‬Hern�ndez-Rivera‭ ‬-‭ ‬2012.



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