Argyrosaurus superbus Lydekker 1893 (sauropod)

Reptilia - Saurischia

Full reference: R. Lydekker. 1893. Contributions to a knowledge of the fossil vertebrates of Argentina. I. — The dinosaurs of Patagonia. Anales del Museo de La Plata. Paleontología Argentina 2:1-16

Belongs to Argyrosaurus according to A. Otero and M. Reguero 2013

See also Ameghino 1896, Ameghino 1897, Apesteguía 2005, Apesteguía et al. 2021, Bonaparte 1978, Bonaparte 1979, Bonaparte 1984, Bonaparte 1996, Bonaparte and Gasparini 1979, Bonaparte and Powell 1980, Casal et al. 2015, Casal and Ibiricu 2010, Curry Rogers 2005, de Jesus Faria et al. 2015, Gorscak et al. 2017, Huene 1927, Huene 1929, Huene 1929, Huene 1931, Ibiricu et al. 2011, Ibiricu et al. 2019, Jacobs et al. 1996, Kellner et al. 2006, Lamanna et al. 2002, Lambert 1940, Lambert 1941, Lambert 1942, Lydekker 1893, Mannion and Otero 2012, Martínez et al. 2016, McIntosh 1990, Mones 1972, Mones 1997, Navarrete et al. 2011, Navarro et al. 2022, Nopcsa 1901, Novas 1997, Powell 2003, Rusconi 1933, Salgado and Calvo 1997, Salgado and Coria 2005, Salgado and Coria 2009, Serra 1945, Steel 1970, Stromer 1932, Swinton 1947, Ullmann and Lacovara 2016, Upchurch et al. 2004 and Wilson 2002

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: MLP 77-V-29-1, a set of limb elements (left forelimb). Its type locality is La Angostura, Río Chico (MLP), which is in a Campanian/Maastrichtian terrestrial horizon in the Lago Colhué Huapi Formation of Argentina.

Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore

Distribution: found only at La Angostura, Río Chico (MLP)

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