Barrosasaurus casamiquelai Salgado and Coria 2009 (sauropod)

Reptilia - Saurischia

Full reference: L. Salgado and R. A. Coria. 2009. Barrosasaurus casamiquelai gen. et sp. nov., a new titanosaur (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) from the Anacleto Formation (Late Cretaceous: early Campanian) of Sierra Barrosa (Neuquén, Argentina). Zootaxa 2222:1-16

Belongs to Barrosasaurus according to L. Salgado and R. A. Coria 2009

See also Bellardini et al. 2014, Casal and Ibiricu 2010, de Jesus Faria et al. 2015, Ibiricu et al. 2011, Mannion and Otero 2012, Navarro et al. 2022 and Tomaselli et al. 2022

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: MCF-PVPH-447/1-3, a set of vertebrae. Its type locality is Sierra Barrosa (Anacleto) [MCF], which is in a Campanian/Campanian fluvial sandstone in the Anacleto Formation of Argentina.

Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Argentina (2 collections)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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