Aeolosaurus rionegrinus Powell 1987 (sauropod)

Reptilia - Saurischia

Full reference: J. E. Powell. 1987. The Late Cretaceous fauna of Los Alamitos, Patagonia, Argentina part VI—the titanosaurids. Revista del Museo Argentina de Ciencias Naturales "Bernardino Rivadavia" e Instituto Nacional de Investigacion de las Ciencias Naturales: Paleontología 3(3):147-153

Belongs to Aeolosaurus according to M. Soto et al. 2022

See also Apesteguía 2005, Apesteguía 2005, Apesteguía et al. 2021, Bonaparte 1996, Calvo and González Riga 2003, Calvo and Porfiri 2010, Campos et al. 2005, Candeiro 2010, Casal et al. 2007, Castro et al. 2007, Curry Rogers 2005, de Jesus Faria et al. 2015, de Valais et al. 2020, Filippi 2015, Franco-Rosas et al. 2004, González Riga 2011, González Riga et al. 2009, Gorscak et al. 2017, Jacobs et al. 1996, Kellner et al. 2005, Kellner et al. 2006, Lopes and Buchmann 2008, Malkani 2008, Malkani 2010, Malkani 2015, Malkani 2015, Mannion and Otero 2012, Martinelli et al. 2011, Molnar and Wiffen 2007, Navarrete et al. 2011, Novas 1997, Otero and Reguero 2013, Powell 1987, Powell 1992, Powell 2003, Salgado 1996, Salgado and Coria 1993, Salgado and Coria 2005, Santucci and Arruda-Campos 2011, Santucci and Bertini 2001, Upchurch et al. 2004 and Wilson 2002

Sister taxon: Aeolosaurus colhuehuapensis

Type specimen: MJG-R 1, a set of postcrania. Its type locality is Casa de Piedra, Estancia Maquinchao, which is in a Campanian/Maastrichtian terrestrial horizon in the Angostura Colorada Formation of Argentina.

Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore

Distribution: found only at Casa de Piedra, Estancia Maquinchao

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