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Dinosaur: Malefica deckerti
| Length*: | 6.1 m | 20.0 ft |
| Weight*: | 1.2 t | 2,646 lb |
*The largest known specimen
Period
Epoch: Late Cretaceous
Stage: Campanian
Years: 83.6–72.1 Ma
Details
Status: valid
Author: Prieto-Márquez & Wagner
Year: 2022
Distribution
Area: North America
Country: USA
Region: Texas
Formation: Aguja
Locations
Sources
Material: Partial left maxilla.
References: Prieto-Márquez A, Wagner JR (2022). "A new 'duck-billed' dinosaur (Ornithischia: Hadrosauridae) from the upper Campanian of Texas points to a greater diversity of early hadrosaurid offshoots"
