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Muyelensaurus

Extinct genus of dinosaurs

Extinct genus of dinosaurs

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  • M. pecheni Calvo et al. 2007 (type)

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 in the Neuquén province of Patagonia and were originally assigned to the Portezuelo Formation but further research showed that these layers belong to the Plottier Formation. 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.

Classification

The cladogram below follows Franca et al. (2016), placing Muyelensaurus as a basal lithostrotian.

The cladogram below follows Mocho et al. (2019), this time placing Muyelensaurus within Rinconsauria.

References

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

References

  1. J. O. Calvo, B. J. González Riga, J. D. Porfiri. (2007). "A new titanosaur sauropod from the Late Cretaceous of Neuquén, Patagonia, Argentina". Arquivos do Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro.
  2. Flavio Bellardini, Mattia Antonio Baiano, Francisco Barrios, Borja Holgado. (2018). "New Titanosauria (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) remains from the Upper Cretaceous (Plottier Fm) of the southern Neuquén Basin (Patagonia, Argentina)". Journal of Iberian Geology.
  3. [https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=122471 ''Muyelensaurus''] at [[Fossilworks]].org
  4. (2016). "New lower jaw and teeth referred to ''Maxakalisaurus topai'' (Titanosauria: Aeolosaurini) and their implications for the phylogeny of titanosaurid sauropods". PeerJ.
  5. 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
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