Lessemsaurus sauropoides Bonaparte 1999 (sauropod)

Reptilia - Saurischia - Lessemsauridae

Full reference: J. F. Bonaparte. 1999. Evolución de las vértebras presacras en Sauropodomorpha [Evolution of the presacral vertebrae in Sauropodomorpha]. Ameghiniana 36(2):115-187

Belongs to Lessemsaurus according to D. Pol and J. E. Powell 2007

See also Apaldetti et al. 2011, Apesteguía 2005, Bonaparte 1999, Ezcurra and Apaldetti 2012, Galton and Upchurch 2004, Galton et al. 2005, Langer et al. 2010, Martínez et al. 2015, Peyre de Fabrègues and Allain 2016 and Upchurch et al. 2007

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: PVL 4822-1. Its type locality is Paraje La Esquina, which is in a Norian fluvial-lacustrine siliciclastic in the Los Colorados Formation of Argentina.

Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore

Distribution: found only at Paraje La Esquina

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