Reptilia - Saurischia - Saturnaliidae
Full reference: M. D. Ezcurra. 2010. A new early dinosaur (Saurischia: Sauropodomorpha) from the Late Triassic of Argentina: a reassessment of dinosaur origin and phylogeny. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 8:371-425
Belongs to Chromogisaurus according to R. N. Martínez et al. 2013
See also Apaldetti et al. 2011, Ezcurra 2010, Ezcurra 2017, Müller and Garcia 2021 and Sereno et al. 2013
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: PVSJ 845, a partial skeleton (vertebrae, partial ulna, ilium, partial hindlimb). Its type locality is Cancha de Bochas, Valle Pintado, which is in a Carnian terrestrial mudstone in the Ischigualasto Formation of Argentina.
Ecology: planktonic suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at Cancha de Bochas, Valle Pintado
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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