Willinakaqe salitralensis

Willinakaqe was a dinosaur that lived in what is now southern Argentina during the late cretaceous. It's name means 'southern duck mimic' in Mapuche, a language spoken by the people near where this dinosaur was discovered. Many disarticulated and damaged bones were found, and initially believed to make up several individuals ranging from juvenile to adult. Another site containing similar bones was found, and these bones were also identified as Willinakaqe. Further review of the bones all together led some paleontologists to believe that 'Willinakaqe' may represent several taxa, making this species either a chimera or illegitimate altogether. If the bones do represent a single species, it seems to be a dinosaur that was about 30 feet in length, and would have probably looked similar to the related North American hadrosaurs Kritosaurus and Gryposaurus with a tall ridge on its hips and perhaps a stockier build. If the bones are from different dinosaurs, then it is difficult to say what each of these animals would have looked like.

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