Kritosaurini
tribe · Lapparent and Lavocat 1955 · accepted · extinct
18 descendant taxa · 57 fossil sites · 19 formations · 4 countries
Lived when
Cretaceous – Paleogene
85.7–66 million years ago
Found where
4 countries
19 rock formations
Fossil record
57 sites
9 catalogued specimens
Inside this group
Immediate children
- Terminal taxon — no children recorded.
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Facts from the record
- Its fossils span about 20 million years, from 85.7 to 66 million years ago.
- The youngest known fossil is around 66 million years old — that is roughly 220 times further back than the whole of human history.
- Kritosaurini was named in 1955 (Lapparent and Lavocat 1955) — 71 years ago.
- Fossils have been recorded in 4 countries and 19 named rock formations.
- 9 individual specimens are catalogued in museum collections.
- This group contains 18 named taxa, including 11 species.
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Data from the Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0).