Yamanasaurus
Sign in to saveYamanasaurus (meaning "Yamana lizard") is an extinct genus of saltasaurine titanosaurian dinosaur from the Río Playas Formation of Ecuador, which dates to the Campanian-Maastrichtian of the late Cretaceous period (approximately 75-70 million years ago). The type and only species is Yamanasaurus lojaensis, representing the first non-avian dinosaur described from Ecuador. The holotype, consisting of fragments of a humerus, ulna, tibia, two sacral vertebrae and a single caudal, was discovered in 2017.
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Yamanasaurus (meaning "Yamana lizard") is an extinct genus of saltasaurine titanosaurian dinosaur from the Río Playas Formation of Ecuador, which dates to the Campanian-Maastrichtian of the late Cretaceous period (approximately 75-70 million years ago). The type and only species is Yamanasaurus lojaensis, representing the first non-avian dinosaur described from Ecuador. The holotype, consisting of fragments of a humerus, ulna, tibia, two sacral vertebrae and a single caudal, was discovered in 2017.
== Etymology == The genus Yamanasaurus refers to the locality of Yamana, where the bones were found, which is located in southern Ecuador, about fifty kilometers from the Peruvian border.
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