Cathartesaura anaerobica Gallina and Apesteguía 2005 (sauropod)

Reptilia - Saurischia - Rebbachisauridae

Full reference: P. A. Gallina and S. Apesteguía. 2005. Cathartesaura anaerobica gen. et sp. nov., a new rebbachisaurid (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) from the Huincul Formation (Upper Cretaceous), Río Negro, Argentina. Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales, nuevo serie 7(2):153-166

Belongs to Cathartesaura according to L. M. Ibiricu et al. 2012

See also Carballido et al. 2010, Gallina and Apesteguía 2005, Haluza et al. 2012, Ibiricu et al. 2015, Mannion 2009, Mannion et al. 2011, Motta et al. 2016 and Paulina-Carabajal and Calvo 2021

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: MPCA 232, a set of postcrania. Its type locality is La Buitrera (upper), which is in a Cenomanian/Turonian fluvial sandstone in the Huincul Formation of Argentina.

Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore

Distribution: found only at La Buitrera (upper)

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