Huehuecanauhtlus

Hway-hway-can-a-uh-tlus.
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Cassidy Wood

Paleoentomologist

Cassidy Wood uncovers the tiny yet significant world of prehistoric insects. Her research on amber-preserved specimens has revealed intricate details about ancient ecosystems.

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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.

Diet

Herbivore.

Species

H.‭ ‬tiquichensis‭

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.

In Depth

       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

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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