Comahuesaurus

Comahuesaurus (meaning "Comahue lizard", after the region in which it was found) is a genus of sauropod dinosaur of the family Rebbachisauridae. It was found in the Lohan Cura Formation in Argentina, and lived during the Early Cretaceous (Aptian to Albian). The type species is C. windhauseni, named for Anselmo Windhausen, who contributed significantly to the geological study of Patagonia.

==Discovery and naming== The holotype of Comahuesaurus, given the specimen number MOZ-PV 6722, was discovered on the northern slope of a locality called Cerro Aguada del Leon in the south-central area of the Neuquén Basin, which corresponds to the Lohan Cura Formation. It was originally assigned to Limaysaurus sp. by Leonardo Salgado and colleagues in 2004. Despite being referred to an existing genus, the authors remarked that there were significant enough anatomical differences to justify the possible naming of a new species. The discovery and preparation of additional specimens from the same bone bed as the holotype led a team of authors, including José Luis Carballidoa, Leonardo Salgadob, Diego Pola, José Ignacio Canudod, and Alberto Garridoe, to describe the new material and create the new genus Comahuesaurus to contain these remains.