Latirhinus

Latirhinus (meaning "broad nose" from the Latin latus (broad) and Greek ῥίς, rhis (nose)) is an extinct genus of lambeosaurine[1] hadrosaurid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Mexico. The type species, Latirhinus uitstlani, was named in 2012 on the basis of a partial skeleton from the Campanian-age Cerro del Pueblo Formation. The specific name uitstlani means "southern" in the Náhuatl language of Mexico, a reference to the species' southern occurrence in the Cretaceous landmass Laramidia. Latirhinus was originally thought to be similar to the saurolophine Gryposaurus. However, a recent study found it to be a lambeosaurine as well as a chimeric genus comprising both lambeosaurine and saurolophine remains.[2]

Latirhinus
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,
Reconstructed skeleton
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Order: †Ornithischia
Clade: †Ornithopoda
Family: †Hadrosauridae
Genus: †Latirhinus
Prieto-Márquez and Brañas, 2012
Type species
†Latirhinus uitstlani
Prieto-Márquez and Brañas, 2012
Reconstructed skull

See also

References
  1. Ángel Alejandro Ramírez-Velascoa; Jesús Alvarado-Ortega; Espinosa-Arrubarrena (2021). "Review of the taxonomic affinities of Latirhinus uitstlani, an emblematic Mexican hadrosaurid". Journal of South American Earth Sciences. 110: 103391. Bibcode:2021JSAES.11003391R. doi:10.1016/j.jsames.2021.103391.
  2. Prieto-Márquez, Albert; Serrano Brañas, Claudia Inés (2012). "Latirhinus uitstlani, a 'broad-nosed' saurolophine hadrosaurid (Dinosauria, Ornithopoda) from the late Campanian (Cretaceous) of northern Mexico". Historical Biology. 24 (6): 607–619. doi:10.1080/08912963.2012.671311. S2CID 128964878.

Further reading
  • Ramírez-Velasco, Ángel Alejandro; Espinosa-Arrubarrena, Luis; Alvarado-Ortega, Jesús (May 2021). "Review of the taxonomic affinities of Latirhinus uitstlani, an emblematic Mexican hadrosaurid". Journal of South American Earth Sciences. 110: 103391. Bibcode:2021JSAES.11003391R. doi:10.1016/j.jsames.2021.103391.


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