#velafrons

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The Cerro del Pueblo formation is not only our first Mexican formation but ALSO NO. 60 IN THIS SERIES!!! I don't know why but despite being way less filled with animals I had some struggled with this piece. Off stream I actually replaced the whole water surface :P

This formation preserves the calm ponds and distributary channels of a delta that emptied into the Western Interior Seaway. There is no evidence of mangroves so I like to compare it with the Danube delta.

The animals here lived in a tropical rainforest setting however I didn't want to show another dense forest after the Tiki formation two weeks ago. So I used the presence of frequent storms as an excuse to get rid of a bunch of larger trees and have tons of bushes...

...Grow into the new spaces. Besides the dinosaurs from here an interesting part of this formation for me was it's flora. We mostly have angiosperms from here, often preserved as fruit, seeds and flowers.

In these size charts by discord member Montana you can see that we have a fascinating diversity in herbivores here. There are also some animals not included here because they are either not described or very fragmentary.

And before you ask: Coahuilaceratops was assigned to a different formation some time ago and Labocania and Paraxenisaurus... lets just say, no. Just no.

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14/02/25 Velafrons

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So do you guys like dinosaurs too orrr…

Concepts for my best friend and I’s steampunk dinosaur cowboy story!

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Day 25- Velafrons

Prompts

[michael-rosskothen]

Dinosaur Velafrons in a desert

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[252mya]

Velafrons coahuilensis

Artwork by Fabrizio De Rossi

Velafrons, "sailed forehead," is a big duck-billed dinosaur whose fossils were found in Mexico. It lived 72 million years ago and was similar to other round-crested hadrosaurs like Corythosaurus and Hypacrosaurus.

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Velafrons coahuilensis

By José Carlos Cortés on @ryuukibart​

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Name: Velafrons coahuilensis

Name Meaning: Sailed Forehead 

First Described: 2007

Described By: Gates et al. 

Classification: Dinosauria, Ornithischia, Genasauria, Neornithischia, Cerapoda, Ornithopoda, Iguanodontia, Dryomorpha, Ankylopollexia, Styracosterna, Hadrosauriformes, Hadrosauroidea, Hadrosauridae, Lambeosaurinae, “Cristohadria”, “Euterpehadria”, Lambeosaurini

Velafrons is a Lambeosaurin known from the Cerro del Pueblo Formation near Coahuila, Mexico, making it one of the few non-avian dinosaurs known from Mexico. It lived about 72 million years ago, in the Campanian age of the Late Cretaceous. It is known from a mostly complete skull and a partial skeleton from a juvenile, which was similar to the juveniles known from Corythosaurus and Hypacrosaurus. It furthermore was found to be fairly closely related to Amurosaurus in phylogenetic analyses. The skull of this juvenile, however, was not entirely proportional with the skulls found in other Lambeosaurins, indicating that it either had a smaller crest, a different crestal growth pattern, or potentially was all around bigger than those other dinosaurs - unusually large, like other hadrosaurids found in Mexico such as Kritosaurus and Magnapaulia. 

Source:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velafrons

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