Chakisaurus
| Chakisaurus Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, | |
|---|---|
| Life restoration of an adult Chakisaurus along with two juvenile individuals | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | †Ornithischia |
| Clade: | †Ornithopoda |
| Clade: | †Elasmaria |
| Genus: | †Chakisaurus |
| Species: | †C. nekul |
| Binomial name | |
| †Chakisaurus nekul Alvarez Nogueira et al., 2024 | |
Chakisaurus (meaning "elder guanaco lizard") is an extinct genus of elasmarian ornithopod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Huincul Formation of Argentina. The genus contains a single species, C. nekul, known from multiple partial skeletons belonging to individuals of different ages. Chakisaurus represents the first ornithischian species to be named from the Huincul Formation.