Tibia & fibula of Laplatasaurus. Scale bar equals 10cm.
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Clade:
Dinosauria
Clade:
Saurischia
Clade:
†Sauropodomorpha
Clade:
†Sauropoda
Clade:
†Macronaria
Clade:
†Titanosauria
Genus:
†Laplatasaurus von Huene, 1929
Type species
†Laplatasaurus araukanicus
von Huene, 1929
Synonyms
Laplatasaurus wichmannianus von Huene, 1929
Titanosaurus araukanicus von Huene, 1929 vide Powell, 1992
Laplatasaurus (meaning "La Plata lizard", named for La Plata, Argentina) is a genus of titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur that lived during the Late Cretaceous in South America, with the holotype and only known specimen found in the Anacleto Formation.
madagascariensis to Laplatasaurus madagascariensis. This last species is today commonly referred to the original Titanosaurus. Huene based Laplatasaurus on fragmentary...
close relatives of Uberabatitan include Laplatasaurus and Brasilotitan. Gallina and Otero recovered Laplatasaurus as the sister taxon of Uberabatitan in...
by von Huene in 1929 and assigned to Titanosaurus araukanicus (now Laplatasaurus). Upchurch & Wilson concluded in their 2003 revision that this assignment...
PMID 25250458. Gallina, Pablo Ariel; Otero, Alejandro (2015). "Reassessment of Laplatasaurus araukanicus (Sauropoda: Titanosauria) from the Upper Cretaceous of Patagonia...
that have been recovered from the formation. Neuquensaurus australis Laplatasaurus araukanicus Antarctosaurus wichmannianus Sphaerovum erbeni Tacuarembovum...
titanosaurs. Von Huene noted that the first caudal could possibly belong to Laplatasaurus. With the exception of an incomplete cervical vertebra and the questionable...
referred to that family because the slender humerus resembles that of Laplatasaurus. However, as noted by McIntosh (1990), the bone is also like that of...
possibility that other sauropods may also have had armour; for example, Laplatasaurus. A new discovery, from another formation, may shed light on the nesting...
dinosaurs. Other contemporaneous paleofauna includes the titanosaurs Laplatasaurus, Rocasaurus and Saltasaurus, the bird Limenavis, and the hadrosaurids...
Maastrichtian) Argentina Known from a partial skeleton lacking the skull Laplatasaurus 1929 Anacleto Formation (Late Cretaceous, Campanian) Argentina Osteoderms...
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