Latirhinus

Latirhinus
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, 72.5 Ma
Reconstructed skeleton, Universum (UNAM)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Ornithischia
Clade: Neornithischia
Clade: Ornithopoda
Family: Hadrosauridae
Subfamily: Lambeosaurinae
Genus: Latirhinus
Prieto-Márquez and Serrano-Brañas, 2012
Type species
Latirhinus uitstlani
Prieto-Márquez and Serrano-Brañas, 2012

Latirhinus (meaning "broad nose" from the Latin latus (broad) and Greek ῥίς, rhis (nose)) is an extinct genus of lambeosaurine[1] hadrosaurid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Mexico. The type species, Latirhinus uitstlani, was named in 2012 on the basis of a partial skeleton from the Campanian-age Cerro del Pueblo Formation. The specific name uitstlani means "southern" in the Náhuatl language of Mexico, a reference to the species' southern occurrence in the Cretaceous landmass Laramidia.

  1. ^ Ángel Alejandro Ramírez-Velasco; Jesús Alvarado-Ortega; Luis Espinosa-Arrubarrena (2021). "Review of the taxonomic affinities of Latirhinus uitstlani, an emblematic Mexican hadrosaurid". Journal of South American Earth Sciences. 110: 103391. Bibcode:2021JSAES.11003391R. doi:10.1016/j.jsames.2021.103391.