Padillasaurus leivaensis Carballido et al. 2015 (sauropod)

Reptilia - Saurischia

Full reference: J. L. Carballido, D. Pol, M. L. Parra Ruge, S. Padilla Bernal, M. E. Páramo-Fonseca and F. Etayo-Serna. 2015. A new Early Cretaceous brachiosaurid (Dinosauria, Neosauropoda) from northwestern Gondwana (Villa de Leiva, Colombia). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 35(5):e980505:1-12

Belongs to Padillasaurus according to J. L. Carballido et al. 2015

See also Noè et al. 2020 and Salisbury et al. 2016

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: JACVM 0001, a set of vertebrae (Dorsal, sacral and caudal vertebrae). Its type locality is La Tordolla, Villa de Leiva, which is in a Barremian coastal claystone in the Paja Formation of Colombia.

Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore

Distribution: found only at La Tordolla, Villa de Leiva

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