Ligabuesaurus

Ligabuesaurus is a genus of titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous which lived in what is now Argentina. The type species, Ligabuesaurus leanzai, was described by Jose Bonaparte, Gonzalez Riga, and Sebastián Apesteguía in 2006, based on a partial skeleton.[1] The generic name, Ligabuesaurus, honors Giancarlo Ligabue, while the specific name, leanzai, honors the geologist Dr. Héctor A. Leanza, who discovered the skeleton in the Lohan Cura Formation.[2]

Ligabuesaurus
Temporal range: Late Aptian-Early Albian
~112–109 Ma
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Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Sauropsida
Superorder:
Dinosauria
Order:
Saurischia
Suborder:
†Sauropodomorpha
Infraorder:
†Sauropoda
(unranked):
†Titanosauria
Genus:
†Ligabuesaurus

Bonaparte et al., 2006
Binomial name
†Ligabuesaurus leanzai
Bonaparte et al., 2006

References
  1. José F. Bonaparte, Bernardo J. González Riga and Sebastián Apesteguía 2006. Ligabuesaurus leanzai gen. et sp. nov. (Dinosauria, Sauropoda), a new titanosaur from the Lohan Cura Formation (Aptian, Lower Cretaceous) of Neuquén, Patagonia, Argentina. Cretaceous Research 27(3): 364–376.
  2. Dinosaur Mailing List entry which announces the discovery (includes complete abstract)


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