Labocania

My first dinosaur of 2025! I know that it isn't as colorful as some of my other dinosaurs (apart from the head), but I still think it's cool.

Skeletal:

https://novataxa.blogspot.com/2024/09/labocania.html

WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON WITH THEROPODS THESE PAST FEW MONTHS.

For instance:

• Saurophaganax has gone from being a Allosaurid, possibly even a basal Carcharodontosaur, to a Metriacanthosaur, to being a Sauropod apparently? (uncomfirmed)

• Monolophosaurus went from being a Basal Tetaneuran to a Spinosaur, and then to a Allosauroid

• Baryonyx commited the bite of 87 on a Iguanodon

• Labocania is a... abomination.

• Compsognathids are Megalosaurs, possibly even being paraphyletic for some reason

• Szechuanosaurus isn't even a Metriacanthosaur.

• Dromaeosaurs having Herbivorous ancestors

Just, what the fuck is happening

The type species L. anomala is from the Cenomanian Bocana Roja Formation,

and L. aguillonae is from the Campanian Cerro del Pueblo Formation, both separated by 20 million years. There's no way it makes sense for a genus to last that long. Okay, it may have happened a few times before but it's still a rare occurrence in animals.

Even if that's true, there's something else that makes me question the genus. L. aguillonae was placed in Teratophoneini, which is in the subfamily Tyrannosaurinae. L. aguillonae lived around 72-73 mya, the oldest tyrannosaurid fossils are from 82 mya... and L. anomala is from 93.6 mya. That's wild.(Also L. anomala was estimated to be 7 meters while most early tyrannosaurs 93 million years ago would have been tiny.)

Labocania is probably valid, but L. aguillonae is probably its own thing. I'm not a palaeontologist tho, so I could be wrong and I probably sound like an idiot making this post.