Macrogryphosaurus

Macrogryphosaurus

Taxobox
name = "Macrogryphosaurus"
fossil_range = Late Cretaceous
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Sauropsida
superordo = Dinosauria
ordo = Ornithischia
subordo = Ornithopoda
infraordo = Iguanodontia
unranked_familia = Elasmaria
genus = "Macrogryphosaurus"
genus_authority=Calvo "et al.", 2007
subdivision_ranks=Species
subdivision=
*"M. gondwanicus" Calvo "et al.", 2007 (type)

"Macrogryphosaurus" (meaning "big enigmatic lizard") is a genus of basal iguanodont dinosaur from the Turonian-early Coniacian age Upper Cretaceous Portezuelo Formation (Neuquén Group) of Patagonia, Argentina. It was described by Jorge Calvo and colleagues, with "M. gondwanicus" as type species (referring to the animal coming from Gondwana).cite journal |last=Calvo |first=J.O. |coauthors=Porfiri, J.D.; and Novas, F.E. |year=2007 |title=Discovery of a new ornithopod dinosaur from the Portezuelo Formation (Upper Cretaceous), Neuquén, Patagonia, Argentina. |journal=Arquivos do Museu Nacional |volume=65 |issue=4 |pages=471–483 ]

"Macrogryphosaurus" is based on MUCPv-321, a partial articulated postcranial skeleton. This specimen includes much of the vertebral column, ribs, complete pelvis, sternum, and four thoracic plates. These thin plates, situated alongside the ribcage, are like those of "Talenkauen", another iguanodontian from the late Cretaceous of Argentina. "Macrogryphosaurus" was somewhat larger, though; MUCPv-321 is estimated at 6 meters long (20 ft), and this individual was probably not fully grown based on the lack of fusion in some vertebrae. It therefore is one of the largest known South American ornithopods outside of hadrosaurids. A phylogenetic analysis indicates that it is related to "Talenkauen" as a basal iguanodontian, and Calvo and colleagues proposed a new clade, Elasmaria, for the two genera. Like other basal iguanodontians, it would have been a bipedal herbivore.cite book |last= Norman|first=David B. |editor= Weishampel, D.B., Dodson, P., and Osmólska, H. (eds.)|title=The Dinosauria |edition=2nd |year= 2004|publisher=University of California Press |location=Berkeley |isbn=0-520-24209-2 |pages=pp. 413-437 |chapter=Basal Iguanodontia]

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