Ilokelesia

Ilokelesia
Temporal range: Cenomanian
~95 Ma
Life restoration
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Saurischia
Clade: Theropoda
Family: Abelisauridae
Genus: Ilokelesia
Coria & Salgado, 1998
Species:
I. aguadagrandensis
Binomial name
Ilokelesia aguadagrandensis
Coria & Salgado, 1998

Ilokelesia is an extinct genus of abelisaurid theropod,[1] preserved in the layers of the earliest Late Cretaceous[2] of the Huincul Formation, Neuquén Group, located near Plaza Huincul, Neuquén Province, Argentina. The specimen, consisting of very fragmentary elements of the skull and the axial and appendicular skeleton, was described by Rodolfo Coria and Leonardo Salgado in late 1998.[3]

  1. ^ Coria, R.A.; Salgado, L. & Calvo, J.O. (1991) "Primeros restos de dinosaurios Theropoda del Miembro Huincul, Formación Río Limay (Cretácico Tardío Presenoniano), Neuquén, Argentina." Ameghiniana, 28: 405-406.
  2. ^ Coria, R.A.; Currie, P.J. & Carabajal, A.P. (2006). "A new abelisauroid theropod from northwestern Patagonia" Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 43: 1283—1289. doi:101139/E06-25
  3. ^ Coria, Rodolfo A.; Salgado, Leonardo (December 1998). "A Basal Abelisauria Novas, 1992 (Theropoda-Ceratosauria) from the Cretaceous of Patagonia, Argentina" (PDF). Gaia. 15: 89–102.