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Aeolosaurus
Taxonomy
Aeolosaurus was named by Powell (1987). It is the type genus of Aeolosaurini.
It was assigned to Titanosaurinae by Powell (1987), Powell (1992), Salgado and Coria (1993), Bonaparte (1996) and Salgado (1996); to Lithostrotia by Upchurch et al. (2004); to Titanosauria by Wilson and Sereno (1998), Wilson (2002) and Curry Rogers (2005); to Titanosauridae by Jacobs et al. (1996), Salgado et al. (1997), Bonaparte (1999), Santucci and Bertini (2001), Calvo and González Riga (2003), Powell (2003) and Salgado and Coria (2005); to Eutitanosauria by Filippi et al. (2011) and Candeiro and Harris (2012); and to Aeolosaurini by Franco-Rosas et al. (2004), Calvo et al. (2007), Calvo et al. (2007), Casal et al. (2007), Lopes and Buchmann (2008), González Riga et al. (2009), Candeiro (2010), Calvo and Porfiri (2010), Santucci and Arruda-Campos (2011), Bittencourt and Langer (2011), González Riga (2011), Navarrete et al. (2011), Juárez Valieri et al. (2011), Coria et al. (2013), González Riga and Ortiz David (2014), Carballido et al. (2017), Hechenleitner et al. (2020), Páramo et al. (2020) and Navarro et al. (2022).
It was assigned to Titanosaurinae by Powell (1987), Powell (1992), Salgado and Coria (1993), Bonaparte (1996) and Salgado (1996); to Lithostrotia by Upchurch et al. (2004); to Titanosauria by Wilson and Sereno (1998), Wilson (2002) and Curry Rogers (2005); to Titanosauridae by Jacobs et al. (1996), Salgado et al. (1997), Bonaparte (1999), Santucci and Bertini (2001), Calvo and González Riga (2003), Powell (2003) and Salgado and Coria (2005); to Eutitanosauria by Filippi et al. (2011) and Candeiro and Harris (2012); and to Aeolosaurini by Franco-Rosas et al. (2004), Calvo et al. (2007), Calvo et al. (2007), Casal et al. (2007), Lopes and Buchmann (2008), González Riga et al. (2009), Candeiro (2010), Calvo and Porfiri (2010), Santucci and Arruda-Campos (2011), Bittencourt and Langer (2011), González Riga (2011), Navarrete et al. (2011), Juárez Valieri et al. (2011), Coria et al. (2013), González Riga and Ortiz David (2014), Carballido et al. (2017), Hechenleitner et al. (2020), Páramo et al. (2020) and Navarro et al. (2022).
Species
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1987 | Aeolosaurus Powell p. 148 |
| 1992 | Aeolosaurus Powell p. 203 |
| 1993 | Aeolosaurus Salgado and Coria |
| 1996 | Aeolosaurus Bonaparte p. 104 |
| 1996 | Aeolosaurus Jacobs et al. p. 602 |
| 1996 | Aeolosaurus Salgado p. 363 |
| 1997 | Aeolosaurus Salgado et al. p. 25 fig. 19 |
| 1998 | Aeolosaurus Wilson and Sereno p. 22 |
| 1999 | Aeolosaurus Bonaparte p. 161 |
| 2001 | Aeolosaurus Santucci and Bertini p. 308 |
| 2002 | Aeolosaurus Wilson p. 248 |
| 2003 | Aeolosaurus Calvo and González Riga fig. 4 |
| 2003 | Aeolosaurus Powell p. 26 |
| 2004 | Aeolosaurus Franco-Rosas et al. p. 332 |
| 2004 | Aeolosaurus Upchurch et al. p. 268 |
| 2005 | Aeolosaurus Curry Rogers pp. 69-71 figs. 2.11-2.13 |
| 2005 | Aeolosaurus Salgado and Coria p. 447 |
| 2007 | Aeolosaurus Calvo et al. p. 497 fig. 14 |
| 2007 | Aeolosaurus Calvo et al. p. 533 fig. 3 |
| 2007 | Aeolosaurus Casal et al. p. 55 |
| 2008 | Aeolosaurus Lopes and Buchmann p. 70 |
| 2009 | Aeolosaurus González Riga et al. p. 141 |
| 2010 | Aeolosaurus Calvo and Porfiri pp. 110-111 |
| 2010 | Aeolosaurus Candeiro p. 245 |
| 2011 | Aeolosaurus Bittencourt and Langer p. 33 |
| 2011 | Aeolosaurus Filippi et al. |
| 2011 | Aeolosaurus González Riga p. 282 |
| 2011 | Aeolosaurus Juárez Valieri et al. p. 156 |
| 2011 | Aeolosaurus Navarrete et al. p. 10 |
| 2011 | Aeolosaurus Santucci and Arruda-Campos |
| 2012 | Aeolosaurus Candeiro and Harris p. 76 |
| 2013 | Aeolosaurus Coria et al. |
| 2014 | Aeolosaurus González Riga and Ortiz David |
| 2017 | Aeolosaurus Carballido et al. |
| 2020 | Aeolosaurus Hechenleitner et al. |
| 2020 | Aeolosaurus Páramo et al. p. 373 |
| 2022 | Aeolosaurus Navarro et al. p. 344 fig. 13 |
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G. †Aeolosaurus Powell 1987
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†Aeolosaurus colhuehuapensis Casal et al. 2007
†Aeolosaurus rionegrinus Powell 1987
Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| J. E. Powell 2003 | The same as for the type species. | |
| R. M. Santucci and A. C. d. Arruda-Campos 2011 | Titanosaur with the following unique association of characters: prezygapophyses curved downward on anterior caudal vertebrae and haemal arches with double articular facets set in a concave posterodorsal surface on anterior and middle caudal vertebrae. |
Measurements
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| Reference: Marsh 1875 | |||||
Age range: base of the Late/Upper Maastrichtian to the top of the Early/Lower Maastrichtian or 70.60000 to 66.00000 Ma
Collections (6 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
|---|---|---|---|
| Campanian - Early/Lower Maastrichtian | Argentina (Chubut) | A. sp. (52909) | |
| Late/Upper Campanian - Early/Lower Maastrichtian | Argentina (Río Negro) | A. rionegrinus (58573) A. sp. (32370) | |
| Maastrichtian | Uruguay (Río Negro) | Neuquensaurus australis (223925) | |
| Maastrichtian | Brazil (Minas Gerais) | Aeolosaurus indet. (64133) | |
| Late/Upper Maastrichtian | Brazil (São Paulo) | A. sp. (83263) |