Pitekunsaurus macayai Filippi and Garrido 2008 (sauropod)

Reptilia - Saurischia

Full reference: L. S. Filippi and A. C. Garrido. 2008. Pitekunsaurus macayai gen. et sp. nov., nuevo titanosaurio (Saurischia, Sauropoda) del Cretácico Superior de la Cuenca Neuquina, Argentina [Pitekunsaurus macayai gen. et sp. nov., new titanosaur (Saurischia, Sauropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous of the Neuquén Basin, Argentina]. Ameghiniana 45(3):575-590

Belongs to Pitekunsaurus according to L. S. Filippi 2015

See also Candeiro and Harris 2012, de Jesus Faria et al. 2015, Díez Díaz et al. 2011, Díez Díaz et al. 2012, Filippi and Garrido 2008, González Riga and Ortiz David 2014, Gorscak et al. 2017, Mannion and Otero 2012, Navarro et al. 2022 and Tomaselli et al. 2022

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: MAU-Pv-AG-446, a partial skeleton. Its type locality is Cañadón de Aguada Grande, which is in a Campanian/Campanian wet floodplain mudstone in the Anacleto Formation of Argentina.

Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore

Distribution: found only at Cañadón de Aguada Grande

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