Laplatasaurus araukanicus Huene 1927

Reptilia - Saurischia

Alternative combination: Titanosaurus araukanicus

Full reference: F. v. Huene. 1927. Contribución a la paleogeografía de Sud América [Contribution to the paleogeography of South America]. Boletín de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias de la República Argentina 30:231-294

Belongs to Laplatasaurus according to P. A. Gallina and A. Otero 2015

See also Apesteguía 2007, Bonaparte 1978, Bonaparte 1979, Bonaparte 1984, Bonaparte 1996, Bonaparte and Gasparini 1979, Bonaparte and Powell 1980, Candeiro and Harris 2012, D'Emic and Wilson 2011, Filippi and Garrido 2008, Gallina and Otero 2015, Huene 1927, Huene 1929, Huene 1931, Kellner et al. 2005, Kellner et al. 2006, Kuhn 1939, Lambert 1940, Lambert 1941, Mannion and Otero 2012, Marinho and Iori 2011, McIntosh 1990, Molnar and Wiffen 2007, Mones 1972, Mones 1997, Mourier et al. 1986, Navarro et al. 2022, Novas 1997, Otero and Reguero 2013, Powell 1992, Powell 2003, Rusconi 1933, Russell et al. 1976, Salgado 1993, Salgado 1996, Salgado 2003, Salgado and Azpilicueta 2000, Salgado and Coria 2005, Salgado and Coria 2009, Salgado and García 2002, Salgado et al. 2015, Sanz 1986, Serra 1945, Steel 1970, Stromer 1932, Swinton 1947, Tatarinov 1964, Tomaselli et al. 2022, Upchurch et al. 2004, Wilson et al. 2019 and Wilson and Upchurch 2003

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: MLP-CS 1127, 1128, a set of limb elements (MLP-CS 1128, right tibia and MLP-CS 1127, right fibula). Its type locality is canal, Cinco Saltos [MLP], which is in a Campanian/Campanian fluvial sandstone in the Anacleto Formation of Argentina.

Distribution: found only at canal, Cinco Saltos [MLP]

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