Limaysaurus Salgado et al. 2004 (Limay lizard)

Reptilia - Saurischia - Rebbachisauridae

Full reference: L. Salgado, A. Garrido, S. E. Cocca and J. R. Cocca. 2004. Lower Cretaceous rebbachisaurid sauropods from Cerro Aguada del León (Lohan Cura Formation), Neuquén province, northwestern Patagonia, Argentina. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 24(4):903-912

Parent taxon: Limaysaurinae according to P. D. Mannion et al. 2019

See also Apesteguía 2007, Canudo et al. 2010, Carballido et al. 2010, Carballido et al. 2012, Gallina and Apesteguía 2005, Haluza et al. 2012, Ibiricu et al. 2012, Ibiricu et al. 2015, Ksepka and Norell 2010, Mannion 2009, Mannion et al. 2011, Mannion et al. 2012, Paulina-Carabajal and Calvo 2021, Salgado et al. 2012, Salgado et al. 2006, Salgado et al. 2004, Taylor and Naish 2005, Tschopp and Mateus 2013, Upchurch et al. 2004, Whitlock 2011, Wilson and Allain 2015 and Xing et al. 2015

Sister taxa: Cathartesaura, Nopcsaspondylus

Subtaxa: Limaysaurus tessonei

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Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Argentina (5 collections), Brazil (1)

Total: 6 collections each including a single occurrence

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