[D] Velafrons coahuilensis [Su] [sG] [T]
Describer
Gates, Sampson, Delgado, Zanno, Eberth, Hernandez-Rivera, Aguillón Martínez & Kirkland, 2007
Time
Cretaceous Late Campanian
Classification
Ornithischia Ornithopoda Hadrosauridae Lambeosaurinae
Diet
Herbivore
Fossilsite
Cerro del Pueblo Formation, Coahuila, Mexico
Info
Genus - Skull - Typespecies
Holotype
CPC-59
Velafrons (meaning \\\\\\\"sailed forehead\\\\\\\") is based on a mostly complete juvenile skull with a bony crest on the forehead. Velafrons was most similar to young specimens of Corythosaurus and Hypacrosaurus, and was found to be a corythosaurin in the phylogenetic analysis performed by Gates and colleagues in their description of the genus.
The skull was large in comparison to skulls from other genera at a similar growth stage, so the crest may have been small in adults or followed a different growth pattern, or it may be that adult Velafrons were also larger than adults of other lambeosaurine genera. Unusually large size is also seen in the Mexican hadrosaurids Kritosaurus sp. and Lambeosaurus laticaudus.
Gates, Sampson, Delgado, Zanno, Eberth, Hernandez-Rivera, Aguillón Martínez & Kirkland, 2007
Time
Cretaceous Late Campanian
Classification
Ornithischia Ornithopoda Hadrosauridae Lambeosaurinae
Diet
Herbivore
Fossilsite
Cerro del Pueblo Formation, Coahuila, Mexico
Info
Genus - Skull - Typespecies
Holotype
CPC-59
Velafrons (meaning \\\\\\\"sailed forehead\\\\\\\") is based on a mostly complete juvenile skull with a bony crest on the forehead. Velafrons was most similar to young specimens of Corythosaurus and Hypacrosaurus, and was found to be a corythosaurin in the phylogenetic analysis performed by Gates and colleagues in their description of the genus.
The skull was large in comparison to skulls from other genera at a similar growth stage, so the crest may have been small in adults or followed a different growth pattern, or it may be that adult Velafrons were also larger than adults of other lambeosaurine genera. Unusually large size is also seen in the Mexican hadrosaurids Kritosaurus sp. and Lambeosaurus laticaudus.