#labocania

[makairodonx]

Breaking News! Just when Hispanic Heritage Month is coming to an end, Mexico has just announced the discovery of Labocania aguillonae, a whole new species of Tyrannosaurid theropod hailing from the Campanian La Bocana Roja Formation of Baja California Norte, and the hype to doodle this fantastic beast that happens to be the country’s latest dinosaur is real.

So here is the first illustration of this new Tyrannosaur species ever made!

References:

https://www.mdpi.com/2813-6284/2/4/12

A New Tyrant Dinosaur from the Late Campanian of Mexico Reveals a Tribe of Southern Tyrannosaurs

The end of the Cretaceous saw the Western Interior Seaway divide North America into two land masses, Laramidia in the west and Appalachia in

[maple-altispinax23]

Oh… the teratophoneins… what a theropod group…

Decided to include every member ever included within this albeit recent and occasionally controversial group, including our fragmentary, and in the case of one species, shittily described labocania

[adamworks]

Hi there!

Day 25: Labocania anomala

[kirby-and-knuckles]

Series of paintings of Californian dinosaurs I did for a friend of mine to use in his presentation on Californian dinosaurs at the LA Natural History Museum.

[artistic-daspletosaurus]

Aww, that triggers my sentimental / romantic side so much. <3

Labocania anomala by KirbyniferousRegret

[252mya]

Labocania anomala

Artwork by Nathan E. Rogers / @nathan-e-rogers

Labocania is a medium-sized theropod dinosaur found in Mexico. Though its remains are very fragmentary, paleontologists believe it was a tyrannosauroid - a relative of T. rex.

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[nathan-e-rogers]

Labocania anomala

Late Cretaceous (73 mya), Baja California, Mexico

Known from fragmentary remains in the La Bocana Roja Formation (Campanian Age), Labocania was a mid-size theropod dinosaur. I've restored it here as a tyrannosauroid, which seems to be the most likely classification as far as I know. Future discoveries may help us better understand this animal's morphology and phylogeny.

To learn more about the fascinating dinosaurs of Mexico, check out this new article at Earth Archives!

[yourfaveisproblematica]

Labocania

Species: L. anomala

Meaning: “La Bocana,” after the place of its discovery.

Age and Location: Late Cretaceous (Campanian) of Mexico

Classification: Metazoa: Eumetazoa: Bilateria: Nephrozoa: Deuterostomia: Chordata: Olfactores: Vertebrata: Eugnathostomata: Euteleostomi: Tetrapoda: Amniota: Sauria: Archosauromorpha: Archelosauria: Archosauriformes: Archosauria: Avemetatarsalia: Ornithodira: Dinosauromorpha: Dinosauriformes: Dinosauria: Saurischia: Eusaurischia: Theropoda: Neotheropoda: Averostra: incertae sedis

After the alarmingly vague Eurytholia, I thought we could return to some more familiar territory today. Labocania is a large theropod of unknown phylogenetic position, remarkable for the robustness of its skull. It may be a member of Abelisauridae, Tyrannosauroidea, or even Carcharodontosauria, which would make it among the latest members of the latter clade. It was probably a moderately large carnivorous dinosaur, with a robustly built, possibly somewhat ornamented, head.

Sources:

Molnar RE. 1974. A distinctive theropod dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of Baja California (Mexico). Journal of Paleontology 48:1009–1017.

Theropoda (Andrea Cau)