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Rayososaurus agrioensis

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Taxonomy
Rayososaurus agrioensis was named by Bonaparte (1996). Its type specimen is MACN-N 41, a set of postcrania, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is 3 km south of Agrio del Medio (Candeleros Fm.), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial sandstone in the Candeleros Formation of Argentina.

It was considered a nomen dubium by Calvo and Salgado (1996).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1996Rayososaurus agrioensis Bonaparte p. 97 fig. 31
1997Rayososaurus agrioensis Bonaparte p. 116
1998Rayososaurus agrioensis Wilson and Sereno p. 18
2002Rayososaurus agrioensis Gallina et al. p. 10R
2003Rayososaurus agrioensis Torcida Fernández-Baldor et al. p. 209
2004Rayososaurus agrioensis Upchurch et al. p. 264
2005Rayososaurus agrioensis Gallina and Apesteguía p. 154
2005Rayososaurus agrioensis Salgado and Coria p. 436
2009Rayososaurus agrioensis Mannion p. 522
2010Rayososaurus agrioensis Carballido et al. p. 496
2012Rayososaurus agrioensis Ibiricu et al. p. 230
2013Rayososaurus agrioensis Canudo et al. p. 20
2015Rayososaurus agrioensis Ibiricu et al. p. 431
2015Rayososaurus agrioencis de Jesus Faria et al. p. 155
2016Rayososaurus agrioensis Canudo et al. p. 44
2021Rayososaurus agrionensis Paulina-Carabajal and Calvo p. 1

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
RankNameAuthor
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
—Ornithodira
—Dinosauromorpha
—Dinosauriformes
—Dinosauria()
—Saurischia()
—Sauropoda()
—Gravisauria
—Eusauropoda
—Neosauropoda
—Diplodocoidea()
—Diplodocimorpha
—Rebbachisauridae()
genusRayososaurus
speciesagrioensis

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Rayososaurus agrioensis Bonaparte 1996
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Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
J. F. Bonaparte 1996As for the genus.
J. L. Carballido et al. 2010Sauropod characterized by the following autapomorphies: scapula which on its dorsal face presents a very well-developed acromion process directed in a markedly posterior direction; ventral margin of the scapula (evident in the right scapular blade) with a strong expansion directed ventrodistally.