Relict duck-billed dinosaurs survived into the last age of the dinosaurs in subantarctic Chile
J. Alarcon-Munoz, A. O. Vargas, H. Püschel, S. Soto-Acuna, L. Manriquez, M. Leppe, J. Kaluza, V. Milla, C. Simon-Gutstein, J. Palma-Liberona, W. Stinnesbeck, E. Frey, J. P. Pino, D. Bajor, E. Nunez, , P. Cruzado-Caballero
This paper describes a new subantarctic duck-billed dinosaur species from Chile that survived into the Maastrichtian, suggesting earlier arrival of its lineage in South America than hadrosaurids.
bioRxiv · Mar 4, 2023Paleontology