Lapampasaurus
| Lapampasaurus Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Order: | †Ornithischia |
| Clade: | †Ornithopoda |
| Family: | †Hadrosauridae |
| Genus: | †Lapampasaurus , & , 2012 |
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| †Lapampasaurus cholinoi Coria, Riga & Casadío, 2012
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Lapampasaurus is an extinct genus of hadrosaurid known from the Late Cretaceous Allen Formation (late Campanian or early Maastrichtian stage) of La Pampa Province, Argentina. It contains a single species, Lapampasaurus cholinoi.[1]
The generic name refers to the Argentine province of La Pampa. The specific name honours the late collector . The material includes cervical, dorsal, sacral and caudal vertebrae, the forelimb girdle, and the partial hindlimb.[1]
See also[]
- Timeline of hadrosaur research
References[]
- ^ a b Rodolfo A. Coria, Bernardo González Riga and Silvio Casadío (2012). "Un nuevo hadrosáurido (Dinosauria, Ornithopoda) de la Formación Allen, provincia de La Pampa, Argentina". Ameghiniana. 49 (4): 552–572. doi:10.5710/AMGH.9.4.2012.487. S2CID 131521822.
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Categories:
- Hadrosaurs
- Campanian life
- Maastrichtian life
- Late Cretaceous dinosaurs of South America
- Cretaceous Argentina
- Fossils of Argentina
- Allen Formation
- Fossil taxa described in 2012
- Ornithischian genera
- Ornithopod stubs