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Muyelensaurus
Temporal range: Late CretaceousScientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Sauropsida Superorder: Dinosauria Order: Saurischia Suborder: Sauropodomorpha Infraorder: Sauropoda (unranked): Titanosauria Family: unknown Genus: Muyelensaurus
Calvo et al., 2007Species - M. pecheni Calvo et al., 2007 (type)
Muyelensaurus 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 Neuquén province in Patagonia. The type species is M. pecheni. The name Muyelensaurus first appeared in a 2007 paper by Argentine paleontologists Jorge Calvo of the Universidad Nacional del Comahue and Bernardo González Riga of the Laboratorio de Paleovertebrados, and Brazilian paleontologist Juan Porfiri of the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.
References
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
- Muyelensaurus at DinoData.org
- South American sauropods
Categories:- Cretaceous dinosaurs
- Dinosaurs of South America
- Titanosaurs
- Fossil taxa described in 2007
- Sauropodomorph stubs
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