Guemesia

Guemesia
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous
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Drawing of Guemesia ochoai
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Saurischia
Clade: Theropoda
Family: Abelisauridae
Genus: Guemesia
Agnolín et al., 2022
Species:
G. ochoai
Binomial name
Guemesia ochoai
Agnolín et al., 2022

Guemesia (named after Martín Miguel de Güemes, whose death bicentenary was in 2021) is a genus of abelisaurid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Los Blanquitos Formation of Salta Province, Argentina. The type and only species is Guemesia ochoai, known from a nearly complete braincase. It is one of the smallest abelisaurids currently known.