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Argentinosaurus huinculensis

Reptilia

Taxonomy
Argentinosaurus huinculensis was named by Bonaparte and Coria (1993). Its type specimen is MCF PVPH-1, a set of postcrania, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Estancia "Las Overas", which is in a Cenomanian/Turonian fluvial horizon in the Huincul Formation of Argentina.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1993Argentinosaurus huinculensis Bonaparte and Coria
1996Argentinosaurus huinculensis Bonaparte p. 101 fig. 33
1996Argentinosaurus huinculensis Salgado p. 360
1997Argentinosaurus huinculensis Novas p. 684
1997Argentinosaurus huinculensis Salgado and Calvo p. 45
1997Argentinosaurus huinculensis Salgado et al. p. 5
1999Argentinosaurus huinculensis Bonaparte p. 167
2002Argentinosaurus huinculensis Wilson p. 248
2004Argentinosaurus huinculensis Upchurch et al. p. 267
2005Argentinosaurus huinculensis Apesteguía p. 249
2005Argentinosaurus huinculensis Campos et al. p. 578
2005Argentinosaurus huinculensis Curry Rogers p. 66
2005Argentinosaurus huinculensis Salgado and Coria p. 440
2006Argentinosaurus huinculensis Carpenter p. 131
2006Argentinosaurus huinculensis Royo-Torres et al. figs. Table S3
2006Argentinosaurus huinculensis Salgado et al. p. 73
2006Argentinosaurus huinculensis Santucci and Bertini p. 356
2007Argentinosaurus huinculensis Calvo et al. p. 533
2007Argentinosaurus huinculensis González Riga and Astini p. 290
2008Argentinosaurus huinculensis Lopes and Buchmann p. 70
2008Argentinosaurus huinculensis Salgado and Carvalho p. 899
2009Argentinosaurus huinculensis Salgado and Coria p. 5
2009Argentinosaurus huinculensis Zhang et al. p. 220
2010Argentinosaurus huinculensis Casal and Ibiricu p. 251
2011Argentinosaurus huinculensis Ibiricu et al. p. 346
2011Argentinosaurus huinculensis Navarrete et al. p. 9
2012Argentinosaurus huinculensis Candeiro and Harris p. 74
2012Argentinosaurus huinculensis D'Emic
2012Argentinosaurus huinculensis Mannion and Otero p. 634
2014Argentinosaurus huinculensis González Riga and Ortiz David p. 3
2014Argentinosaurus huinculensis Woodruff and Foster p. 216
2014Argentinosaurus huinculensis Xing et al. p. 92
2015Argentinosaurus huinculensis de Jesus Faria et al. p. 156
2016Argentinosaurus huinculensis Motta et al. p. 231
2016Argentinosaurus huinculensis Salisbury et al. p. 125
2016Argentinosaurus huinculensis Ullmann and Lacovara p. 1
2018Argentinosaurus huinculensis Simón et al. p. 2
2020Argentinosaurus huinculensis Páramo et al. p. 373
2022Argentinosaurus huinculensis Navarro et al. p. 327

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
RankNameAuthor
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
—Ornithodira
—Dinosauromorpha
—Dinosauriformes
—Dinosauria()
—Saurischia()
—Sauropoda()
—Gravisauria
—Eusauropoda
—Neosauropoda
—Macronaria
—Titanosauriformes
—Titanosauria
—Eutitanosauria
genusArgentinosaurus
specieshuinculensis

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.

†Argentinosaurus huinculensis Bonaparte and Coria 1993
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: hydroxyapatiteinfrao
Entire body: yesinfrao
Adult length: 10 to < 100infrao
Adult width: 10 to < 100infrao
Adult height: 10 to < 100infrao
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: 2004-12-14 12:49:10
Modified: 2004-12-14 14:49:10
Source: infrao = infraorder
Reference: Marsh 1875

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Cenomanian to the top of the Turonian or 99.60000 to 89.80000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Cenomanian - Turonian99.6 - 89.8Argentina (Neuquén) Argentinosaurus huinculensis (type locality: 51981)