Labocania

from La Bocana (Roja)

• La Bocana · Spanish · the river mouth/inlet (from La Bocana Roja, 'the red river mouth')
• -ia · Latin · suffix indicating a place

Labocania is named after La Bocana Roja, the rock formation and locality in Baja California, Mexico, where its fossils were found. "Bocana" is Spanish for a river mouth or narrow inlet, and "Roja" means red. The Latin-style ending "-ia" turns the place name into a genus name. The only known species is Labocania anomala, whose species name means "anomalous" and reflects its unusual, hard-to-classify features.

Named by

Molnar

Year named

1974

Period

Late Cretaceous

Stage

Campanian

Found in

La Bocana Roja Formation, Baja California, Mexico

A large theropod known from fragmentary remains. Its exact relationships are uncertain; it has been suggested to be a tyrannosauroid, though this is debated.