Comahuesaurus
Name:
Comahuesaurus.
Phonetic: Co-mah-hew-sore-us.
Named By: Jos� Luis Carballido, Leonardo Salgado,
Diego Pol, Jos� Ignacio Canudo & Alberto Garrido -
2012.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia, Dinosauria,
saurischia, Sauropoda, Rebbachisauridae.
Species: C. windhauseni
(type).
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Femur (thigh bone) 113 centimetres long. Total
body size uncertain.
Known locations: Argentina - Lohan Cura
Formation.
Time period: Aptian/Albian of the Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Partial remains.
Comahuesaurus was is genus of rebbachisaurid sauropod that lived in South America during the early Cretaceous. As a rebacchiosauird, Comahuesaurus would be related to genera such as Zapalasaurus, Rebbachisaurus and Rayososaurus.
Further reading
- A new basal rebbachisaurid (Sauropoda, Diplodocoidea) from
the Early Cretaceous of the Neuqu�n Basin; evolution and biogeography
of the group - Historical Biology 24 (6): 631–654 -
Jos� Luis Carballido, Leonardo Salgado, Diego Pol, Jos� Ignacio
Canudo & Alberto Garrido - 2012.
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