Patagotitan mayorum Carballido et al. 2017 (sauropod)

Reptilia - Saurischia

Full reference: J. L. Carballido, D. Pol, A. Otero, I. A. Cerda, L. Salgado, A. C. Garrido, J. Ramezani, N. R. CĂșneo, and J. M. Krause. 2017. A new giant titanosaur sheds light on body mass evolution among sauropod dinosaurs. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 284:20171219:1-10

Belongs to Patagotitan according to J. L. Carballido et al. 2017

See also Gallina et al. 2021, Navarro et al. 2022 and Poropat et al. 2023

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: MPEF-PV 3400, a partial skeleton (Postcrania). Its type locality is La Flecha ranch, which is in an Albian floodplain sandstone/mudstone in the Cerro Barcino Formation of Argentina.

Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore

Distribution: found only at La Flecha ranch

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