Gonkoken Temporal range: Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian), ~
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | †Ornithischia |
Clade: | †Neornithischia |
Clade: | †Ornithopoda |
Superfamily: | †Hadrosauroidea |
Genus: | †Gonkoken Alarcón-Muñoz et al., 2023 |
Species: | †G. nanoi
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Binomial name | |
†Gonkoken nanoi Alarcón-Muñoz et al., 2023
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Gonkoken (meaning "similar to a wild duck or swan") is an extinct genus of hadrosauroid ornithopod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Dorotea Formation of Chilean Patagonia. The genus contains a single species, G. nanoi, known from disarticulated bones of multiple individuals.[1]