Zapalasaurus bonapartei Salgado et al. 2006 (sauropod)

Reptilia - Saurischia - Rebbachisauridae

Full reference: L. Salgado, I. d. S. Carvalho, and A. C. Garrido. 2006. Zapalasaurus bonapartei, un nuevo saurópodo de La Formación La Amarga (Cretacico Inferior), noroeste de Patagonia, Provincia de Neuquén, Argentina [Zapalasaurus bonapartei, a new sauropod from the La Amarga Formation (Lower Cretaceous), northwestern Patagonia, Neuquén province, Argentina]. Géobios 39:695-707

Belongs to Zapalasaurus according to G. J. Windholz et al. 2021

See also Apesteguía 2007, Calvo and Porfiri 2010, Carballido et al. 2010, de Jesus Faria et al. 2015, Grellet-Tinner et al. 2012, Ibiricu et al. 2012, Ibiricu et al. 2015, Mannion 2009, Mannion et al. 2011, Paulina-Carabajal and Calvo 2021, Salgado et al. 2012 and Salgado et al. 2006

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: Pv-6127-MOZ, a set of postcrania. Its type locality is Puesto Morales, La Picaza, which is in a Barremian/Aptian alluvial fan mudstone in the La Amarga Formation of Argentina.

Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore

Distribution: found only at Puesto Morales, La Picaza

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