Lessemsaurus
Sign in to saveLessemsaurus is an extinct genus of sauropodiform dinosaur that lived in the Norian-aged (Upper Triassic) Los Colorados Formation of what is now Argentina.
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- Parent taxon
- Lessemsauridae
- Image
- Lessemsaurus Senckenberg.jpg
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- genus
- taxon name
- Lessemsaurus
- Commons category
- Lessemsaurus
- start time
- 228000000-
- end time
- 208500000-
- time period
- Late Triassic
- nomenclatural type of
- Lessemsauridae
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Lessemsaurus is an extinct genus of sauropodiform dinosaur that lived in the Norian-aged (Upper Triassic) Los Colorados Formation of what is now Argentina.
== Naming and description == The type species, L. sauropoides, was formally described by José Fernando Bonaparte in 1999 in honor of Don Lessem, a writer of popular science books. It was found in the Los Colorados Formation of the Ischigualasto-Villa Unión Basin in La Rioja Province, Argentina.
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