
Puertasaurus
Sign in to savePuertasaurus is a genus of sauropod dinosaur that lived in South America during the Late Cretaceous Period. It is known from a single specimen recovered from sedimentary rocks of the Cerro Fortaleza Formation in southwestern Patagonia, Argentina, which probably is Campanian or Maastrichtian in age. The only species is Puertasaurus reuili. Described by the paleontologist Fernando Novas and colleagues in 2005, it was named in honor of Pablo Puerta and Santiago Reuil, who discovered and prepared the specimen. It consists of four well-preserved vertebrae, including one cervical, one dorsal, and tw
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- Parent taxon
- Lognkosauria
- Image
- Puertasaurus Skeletal V2.svg
- Length
- 30.0
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- main food source
- herbivore
- taxon name
- Puertasaurus
- taxon rank
- genus
- Commons category
- Puertasaurus
- start time
- 70600000-0
- end time
- 66043000-0
- time period
- Late Cretaceous
- location of discovery
- Argentina
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Puertasaurus ist eine Gattung sehr großer sauropoder Dinosaurier aus der Gruppe der Titanosauria. Bisher sind lediglich sehr fragmentarische Fossilien bekannt, die aus der späten Oberkreide (frühes Maastrichtium) der argentinischen Provinz Santa Cruz stammen. Einzige Art ist Puertasaurus reuili.
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