Puertasaurus reuili Novas et al. 2005 (sauropod)

Reptilia - Saurischia

Alternative combination: Puertasaurus reuilli

Full reference: F. E. Novas, L. Salgado, J. O. Calvo and F. L. Agnolín. 2005. Giant titanosaur (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) from the Late Cretaceous of Patagonia. Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales, nuevo serie 7(1):37-41

Belongs to Puertasaurus according to B. A. Navarro et al. 2022

See also Calvo et al. 2007, Candeiro and Harris 2012, de Jesus Faria et al. 2015, Egerton et al. 2011, Ezcurra et al. 2010, Gallina 2011, González Riga and Ortiz David 2014, Gorscak et al. 2017, Mannion and Otero 2012, Navarrete et al. 2011, Novas et al. 2005, Royo-Torres et al. 2006, Salisbury et al. 2016, Ullmann and Lacovara 2016 and Woodruff and Foster 2014

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: MPM 10002. Its type locality is Cerro Los Hornos, La Leona, which is in a Campanian fluvial sandstone/mudstone in the Cerro Fortaleza Formation of Argentina.

Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore

Distribution: found only at Cerro Los Hornos, La Leona

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