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Andesaurus

Reptilia

Taxonomy

Andesaurus was named by Calvo and Bonaparte (1991). It is the type genus of Andesauridae.

It was assigned to Andesaurinae by Calvo and Bonaparte (1991) and McIntosh (1997); to Titanosauridae by Salgado and Martínez (1993), Upchurch (1995), Upchurch (1995), Jacobs et al. (1996), Salgado (1996) and Prasad and Sahni (1999); to Andesauroidea by Salgado (2003) and Franco-Rosas et al. (2004); to Andesauridae by Bonaparte and Coria (1993), Bonaparte (1996), Bonaparte (1999) and Apesteguía (2005); and to Titanosauria by Salgado et al. (1997), Sereno (1998), Wilson and Sereno (1998), Calvo (1999), Smith et al. (2001), Wilson (2002), Wilson and Upchurch (2003), Upchurch et al. (2004), Salgado and Coria (2005), Apesteguía (2005), Curry Rogers (2005), Wilson (2006), Martínez and Novas (2006), Calvo et al. (2007), Calvo et al. (2007), González Riga et al. (2009), Ksepka and Norell (2010), Mannion and Calvo (2011), Filippi et al. (2011), D'Emic (2012), Mannion et al. (2013), D'Emic (2013), González Riga and Ortiz David (2014), Apesteguía et al. (2021) and Navarro et al. (2022).

Species

A. delgadoi

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1991	Andesaurus Calvo and Bonaparte pp. 304-308 figs. 3-8
1993	Andesaurus Bonaparte and Coria
1993	Andesaurus Salgado and Martínez
1995	Andesaurus Upchurch p. 253
1996	Andesaurus Bonaparte p. 101 fig. 32
1996	Andesaurus Jacobs et al. p. 600
1996	Andesaurus Salgado p. 363
1997	Andesaurus McIntosh p. 658
1997	Andesaurus Salgado et al. p. 25 fig. 19
1998	Andesaurus Sereno p. 71 fig. 7
1998	Andesaurus Wilson and Sereno p. 22
1999	Andesaurus Bonaparte p. 166
1999	Andesaurus Calvo p. 22
1999	Andesaurus Prasad and Sahni p. 382
2001	Andesaurus Smith et al. p. 1705 fig. 3
2002	Andesaurus Wilson p. 248
2003	Andesaurus Salgado p. 17 fig. 1
2003	Andesaurus Wilson and Upchurch p. 156 fig. 21
2004	Andesaurus Franco-Rosas et al. p. 332
2004	Andesaurus Upchurch et al. p. 267
2005	Andesaurus Apesteguía p. 259
2005	Andesaurus Curry Rogers pp. 69-71 figs. 2.11-2.13
2005	Andesaurus Salgado and Coria p. 438
2006	Andesaurus Martínez and Novas p. 245
2006	Andesaurus Wilson p. 182
2007	Andesaurus Calvo et al. p. 497 fig. 14
2007	Andesaurus Calvo et al. p. 533 fig. 3
2009	Andesaurus González Riga et al. p. 144 fig. 11
2010	Andesaurus Ksepka and Norell
2011	Andesaurus Filippi et al.
2011	Andesaurus Mannion and Calvo
2012	Andesaurus D'Emic
2013	Andesaurus D'Emic
2013	Andesaurus Mannion et al.
2014	Andesaurus González Riga and Ortiz David
2021	Andesaurus Apesteguía et al.
2022	Andesaurus Navarro et al. p. 344 fig. 13

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Deuterostomia
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1874
subphylum	Vertebrata
superclass	Gnathostomata
—	Osteichthyes	()
subclass	Sarcopterygii	()
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha	(Nelson 2006)
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha	()
—	Tetrapoda
—	Reptiliomorpha
—	Anthracosauria
subclass	Amphibiosauria	Kuhn 1967
—	Cotylosauria	()
—	Amniota
—	Sauropsida
class	Reptilia
subclass	Eureptilia	()
—	Romeriida

Rank	Name	Author
—	Diapsida	()
—	Archosauromorpha	(Huene 1946)
—	Crocopoda
—	Archosauriformes	Gauthier 1986
—	Eucrocopoda
—	Archosauria	()
informal	Avemetatarsalia
—	Ornithodira
—	Dinosauromorpha
—	Dinosauriformes
—	Dinosauria	()
—	Saurischia	()
—	Sauropoda	()
—	Gravisauria
—	Eusauropoda
—	Neosauropoda
—	Macronaria
—	Titanosauriformes
—	Titanosauria
genus	Andesaurus

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. †Andesaurus Calvo and Bonaparte 1991

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†Andesaurus delgadoi Calvo and Bonaparte 1991

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

hydroxyapatiteinfrao

Entire body:

yesg

Adult length:

10 to < 100infrao

Adult width:

10 to < 100infrao

Adult height:

10 to < 100infrao

Maximum body mass:

100000 kgg

Minimum body mass:

30000 kgg

Thickness:

thickinfrao

Architecture:

compact or denseinfrao

Form:

sphericalinfrao

Ontogeny:

accretion, modification of partsinfrao

Grouping:

gregariousinfrao

Environment:

terrestrialinfrao

Locomotion:

actively mobileinfrao

Life habit:

ground dwellinginfrao

Diet:

herbivoreinfrao

Reproduction:

oviparousinfrao

Dispersal:

direct/internalinfrao

Dispersal 2:

mobileinfrao

Created:

2005-08-25 06:14:35

Modified:

2005-08-25 08:14:35

Source: g = genus, infrao = infraorder

References: Peczkis 1995, Marsh 1875

Age range: Early/Lower Cenomanian or 99.60000 to 93.50000 Ma

Collections: one only

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Cenomanian	99.6 - 93.5	Argentina (Neuquén)	A. delgadoi (45409)