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HUEHUECANAUHTLUS
(hway-hway-can-a-uh-tlus)
meaning: "Ancient duck"
Huehuecanauhtlus
Named By: A. A. RamirezinVelasco, M. Benammi, A. PrietoinMarquez, J. Alvarado Ortega & R. HernandezinRivera in 2012
Time Period: Late Cretaceous, Santonian
Location: Mexico, Michoacan
Size: Uncertain due to lack of remains, but very roughly esitmated to be about 5.5-6 meters long
Diet: Herbivore
Fossil(s): At least two individuals composed of partial skull and post cranial skeletal remains
Classification: | Chordata | Reptilia | Dinosauria | Ornithischia | Ornithopoda | Hadrosauroidea |
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Huehuecanauhtlus is an extinct genus of hadrosauroid dinosaur known from the Late Cretaceous (Santonian stage) of Michoacan, western Mexico. It contains a single species, Huehuecanauhtlus tiquichensis.

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