Labocania

Taxobox
name = "Labocania"

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image width = 250
fossil_range = Late Cretaceous
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Sauropsida
superordo = Dinosauria
ordo = Saurischia
subordo = Theropoda
superfamilia = Tyrannosauroidea?
genus = "Labocania"
genus_authority = Molnar, 1974
subdivision_ranks=Species
subdivision=
*"L. anomala" Molnar, 1974 (type)

"Labocania" is a genus of theropod (tyrannosauroid?) dinosaur from Baja California, Mexico, which lived 70 million years ago, in the Campanian stage of the late Cretaceous Period. The name references the "La Bocana Roja" Formation, which translates as "red lips". The type species, "L. anomala" , was described by Ralph Molnar in 1974. "Labocania" is based on fragmentary material, and its affinities are uncertain. Molnar noted certain similarities between "Labocania" and tyrannosaurids (especially in the form of the ischium), but he did not assign "Labocania" to any family. The cranial elements are very robust, and the frontals in particular are thickened. The size of this predator is unknown, but it was probably a medium sized carnivore, about 6 meters long (20 ft). It was included as a possible tyrannosauroid in the 2004 review of the group by Thomas R. Holtz, Jr..cite_book |last=Holtz |first=Thomas R. |authorlink=Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. |year=2004 |chapter=Tyrannosauroidea |editor= Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; & Osmólska, Halszka (eds.). |title=The Dinosauria |edition=Second Edition |publisher=University of California Press |location=Berkeley |pages=111-136 |isbn=0-520-24209-2]

References

External links

* [http://www.dinoruss.com/de_4/5a6646d.htm "Labocania" in The Dinosaur Encyclopaedia] at Dino Russ's Lair