Gasparinisaura

Taxobox
name = "Gasparinisaura"
status = fossil
fossil_range = Late Cretaceous

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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Sauropsida
superordo = Dinosauria
ordo = Ornithischia
subordo = Cerapoda
infraordo = Ornithopoda
familia = ?Hypsilophodontidae
genus = "Gasparinasaura"
species = "G. cincosaltensis"
binomial = "Gasparinisaura cincosaltensis"
binomial_authority = Coria & Salgado, 1996

"Gasparinisaura" is the name of a genus of dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous. Its fossils were found in Argentina. The type species, "Gasparinisaura cincosaltensis", was described in 1996 by Coria and Salgado. Originally classified as an iguanodont, recent research indicates it was a hypsilophodont. In any case, it was an ornithopod.

References

Coria, R. A., and L. Salgado. 1996. A basal iguanodontian (Ornithischia: Ornithopoda) from the Late Cretaceous of South America. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 16:445–457.
* http://www.users.qwest.net/~jstweet1/ornithopoda.htm