Antarctosaurus wichmannianus Huene 1927 (sauropod)

Reptilia - Saurischia

Alternative combinations: Antarctosaurus whichmannianus, Antarctosaurus wichmanianus, Antarctosaurus wishmannianus

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 Antarctosaurus according to J. A. Wilson et al. 2009

See also Álvarez et al. 2016, Apesteguía 2005, Apesteguía 2007, Apesteguía et al. 2021, Bonaparte 1978, Bonaparte 1979, Bonaparte 1984, Bonaparte 1996, Bonaparte and Gasparini 1979, Bonaparte and Powell 1980, Candeiro and Harris 2012, Casamiquela et al. 1969, Chatterjee and Rudra 1996, Curry Rogers 2005, de Jesus Faria et al. 2015, Díaz-Martínez et al. 2018, Díez Díaz et al. 2012, Díez Díaz et al. 2011, Díez Díaz et al. 2012, Filippi and Garrido 2008, Gallina and Apesteguía 2005, Gallina and Apesteguía 2015, García and Cerda 2010, García et al. 2010, Huene 1927, Huene 1929, Huene 1931, Huene 1941, Hunt et al. 1995, Janensch 1938, Kellner et al. 2006, Khosla and Lucas 2023, Lamanna et al. 2002, Lambert 1940, Lambert 1941, Le Loeuff et al. 1989, Loyal et al. 1996, Mannion and Otero 2012, Martínez et al. 2016, McIntosh 1990, Mones 1972, Mones 1997, Navarro et al. 2022, Novas 1997, Novas et al. 2005, Páramo et al. 2020, Powell 1992, Powell 2003, Rubilar-Rogers et al. 2012, Rusconi 1933, Salgado and Calvo 1997, Salgado and Coria 2005, Salgado and Coria 2009, Santafé et al. 1982, Serra 1945, Soto et al. 2008, Steel 1970, Stromer 1932, Swinton 1947, Tatarinov 1964, Tomaselli et al. 2022, Torcida Fernández-Baldor et al. 2003, Upchurch et al. 2004 and Van Valen 1969

Sister taxa: Antarctosaurus brasiliensis, Antarctosaurus giganteus

Type specimen: MACN 6904, a partial skeleton. Its type locality is right bank, Rio Negro (MACN), which is in a Campanian/Campanian terrestrial sandstone/sandstone in the Anacleto Formation of Argentina.

Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Argentina (1 collection), Uruguay (1)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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