Muyelensaurus
Muyelensaurus Temporal range: late Coniacian-early Santonian
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | Saurischia |
Clade: | †Sauropodomorpha |
Clade: | †Sauropoda |
Clade: | †Macronaria |
Clade: | †Titanosauria |
Clade: | †Lithostrotia |
Clade: | †Rinconsauria |
Genus: | †Muyelensaurus Calvo et al. 2007 |
Species | |
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Muyelensaurus (meaning "Muyelen lizard", after an indigenous name for the Colorado River in Argentina) is a genus of titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Argentina. It was more slender than other titanosaurs. Fossils have been recovered from the Plottier Formation in the Neuquén province of Patagonia. The type species is M. pecheni.[1] The name Muyelensaurus first appeared in a 2007 paper by Argentine paleontologists Jorge Calvo of the Universidad Nacional del Comahue and of the Laboratorio de Paleovertebrados, and Brazilian paleontologist of the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.
Classification[]
The cladogram below follows Franca et al. (2016), placing Muyelensaurus as a basal lithostrotian.[2]
Lithostrotia |
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The cladogram below follows Mocho et al. (2019), this time placing Muyelensaurus within Rinconsauria.[3]
Lithostrotia |
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References[]
- ^ Muyelensaurus at Fossilworks.org
- ^ França, M.A.G.; Marsola, J.C.d A.; Riff, D.; Hsiou, A.S.; Langer, M.C. (2016). "New lower jaw and teeth referred to Maxakalisaurus topai (Titanosauria: Aeolosaurini) and their implications for the phylogeny of titanosaurid sauropods". PeerJ. 4: e2054. doi:10.7717/peerj.2054. PMC 4906671. PMID 27330853.
- ^ Mocho P, Páramo A, Escaso F, Marcos-Fernández F, Vidal D, Ortega F. 2019. Titanosaurs from Lo Hueco (Campanian-Maastrichtian) reveal new information about the evolutionary history of European titanosaurs, pp. 111. In: The Palaeontological Association (ed.), 63rd Annual Meeting, 15th–21st December 2019, University of Valencia, Spain, Programme Abstracts, AGM papers
Bibliography[]
- Calvo, J.O.; González-Riga, B.J.; and Porfiri, J.D. (2007) "A new titanosaur sauropod from the Late Cretaceous of Neuquén, Patagonia, Argentina." Arquivos do Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro 65(4):485-504 PDF
External links[]
- Lithostrotians
- Coniacian life
- Santonian life
- Late Cretaceous dinosaurs of South America
- Cretaceous Argentina
- Fossils of Argentina
- Portezuelo Formation
- Fossil taxa described in 2007
- Taxa named by Jorge O. Calvo
- Sauropodomorph stubs