Chakisaurus

Chakisaurus
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, (CenomanianTuronian)
Life Restoration of an adult Chakisaurus along with two juvenile individuals.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Ornithischia
Clade: Neornithischia
Clade: Ornithopoda
Clade: Elasmaria
Genus: Chakisaurus
Species:
C. nekul
Binomial name
Chakisaurus nekul
Alvarez Nogueira et al., 2024

Chakisaurus (meaning "elder guanaco lizard") is an extinct genus of elasmarian ornithopod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Huincul Formation of Argentina. The genus contains a single species, C. nekul, known from multiple partial skeletons belonging to individuals of different ages. Chakisaurus represents the first ornithischian species to be named from the Huincul Formation.