Dinosauria › Ornithischia
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Chakisaurus
Chakisaurus nekul Nogueira et al. 2024
Late Cretaceous (Turonian) · 100.5–89.8 Mya
Key Statistics
Diet
herbivore
Locomotion
bipedal
inferred from clade
Overview
Chakisaurus nekul is an ornithopod dinosaur known from the Late Cretaceous, roughly 100.5–89.8 million years ago. It was a herbivore. It was named by Nogueira et al. 2024. The species is represented by 1 recorded occurrence in the Paleobiology Database.
Fossil Record Completeness
How much of this profile is grounded in the fossil record
~5%
fragmentary record
Confirmed
Inferred
Based on 1 recorded occurrences in the Paleobiology Database.
Geologic Time
Where Chakisaurus sits in deep time
Chakisaurus
252 Mya201 Mya145 Mya66 Mya
Relationships
Part of a wider fossil web
These species share Chakisaurus's place in deep time — computed from overlapping age ranges, shared clades, and inferred ecology.