Velafrons Velafrons coahuilensis Gates et al. 2007
/vˈɛlæfɹənz/
estimated
Late Cretaceous (Campanian) · 83.6–72.2 Mya
Key Statistics
Diet
herbivore
Locomotion
bipedal
inferred from clade
Habitat
ground-dwelling
Social
herding
Where It Was Found
Country
Mexico
Region
Coahuila
Formation
Cerro del Pueblo
Dig sites
2
distinct collections
Overview
Velafrons coahuilensis is an ornithopod dinosaur known from the Late Cretaceous, roughly 83.6–72.2 million years ago. It was a herbivore. It is recorded as ground-dwelling and herding. Fossils have been recovered from Coahuila, Mexico. It was named by Gates et al. 2007. The species is represented by 2 recorded occurrences in the Paleobiology Database.
Fossil Record Completeness
How much of this profile is grounded in the fossil record
~8%
confidence from occurrence count
Based on 2 recorded occurrences in the Paleobiology Database.
Geologic Time
Where Velafrons coahuilensis sits in deep time
Velafrons
252 Mya201 Mya145 Mya66 Mya
Relationships
Part of a wider fossil web
These species share Velafrons coahuilensis's place in deep time — computed from overlapping age ranges, shared clades, and inferred ecology. Predator–prey pairs additionally have to have been dug up in the same place.