Mahuidacursor

mountain runner

• mahuida · Mapudungun (Mapuche) · mountain
• cursor · Latin · runner

The name combines the Mapuche (Mapudungun) word "mahuida", meaning mountain, with the Latin "cursor", meaning runner. It is usually translated as "mountain runner". It refers to the animal's build as a small, lightly built, fast-running plant-eater, and to the mountainous area of Neuquén Province, Argentina, where it was found.

Named by

Cruzado-Caballero et al.

Year named

2019

Period

Late Cretaceous

Stages

Turonian – Coniacian

Found in

Portezuelo Formation, Neuquén Province, Patagonia, Argentina

Mahuidacursor is a small, plant-eating neornithischian dinosaur. It is generally treated as an elasmarian, a group of South American ornithopods. The only named species is M. lipanglef. Its specific name comes from Mapudungun words meaning "swift". The stage range given is approximate.