Yamanasaurus
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Yamanasaurus Temporal range: Maastrichtian,
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Artistic depiction of Yamanasaurus. | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | Saurischia |
Clade: | †Sauropodomorpha |
Clade: | †Sauropoda |
Clade: | †Macronaria |
Clade: | †Titanosauria |
Clade: | †Lithostrotia |
Family: | †Saltasauridae |
Subfamily: | †Saltasaurinae |
Genus: | †Yamanasaurus Apesteguía et al., 2019 |
Type species | |
†Yamanasaurus lojaensis Apesteguía et al., 2019
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Yamanasaurus (meaning "Yamana lizard") is an extinct genus of saltasaurine titanosaur dinosaur from the of Ecuador, which dates to the Maastrichtian epoch of the Cretaceous period (approximately 66.9 million years ago). The type and only species is Yamanasaurus lojaensis. It is the first non-avian dinosaur described from Ecuador.[1]
The holotype, consisting of fragments of a humerus, ulna, tibia, two sacral vertebrae and a single caudal, was discovered in 2017.
References[]
- ^ Apesteguía, S.; Soto Luzuriaga, J.E.; Gallina, P.A.; Tamay Granda, J.; Guamán Jaramillo, G.A. (2019). "The first dinosaur remains from the Cretaceous of Ecuador". Cretaceous Research. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2019.104345.
Categories:
- Saltasaurids
- Maastrichtian life
- Late Cretaceous dinosaurs of South America
- Cretaceous Ecuador
- Fossils of Ecuador
- Fossil taxa described in 2019
- Sauropodomorph stubs