Comahuesaurus windhauseni Carballido et al. 2012 (sauropod)

Reptilia - Saurischia - Rebbachisauridae

Full reference: J. L. Carballido, L. Salgado, D. Pol, J. I. Canudo, and A. Garrido. 2012. A new basal rebbachisaurid (Sauropoda, Diplodocoidea) from the Early Cretaceous of the Neuquén Basin; evolution and biogeography of the group. Historical Biology 24(6):631-654

Belongs to Comahuesaurus according to J. L. Carballido et al. 2012

See also Canudo et al. 2013, de Jesus Faria et al. 2015 and Paulina-Carabajal and Calvo 2021

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: MOZ-PV 6722, a set of vertebrae (Posterior dorsal neural arch). Its type locality is Cerro Aguade del León, La Picaza, which is in an Aptian/Albian wet floodplain siltstone in the Lohan Cura Formation of Argentina.

Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore

Distribution: found only at Cerro Aguade del León, La Picaza

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