Ligabuesaurus
| Ligabuesaurus | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | †Sauropodomorpha |
| Clade: | †Sauropoda |
| Clade: | †Macronaria |
| Genus: | †Ligabuesaurus |
| Species: | †L. leanzai
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| Binomial name | |
| †Ligabuesaurus leanzai Bonaparte et al., 2006
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Ligabuesaurus is a
Jose Bonaparte, Gonzalez Riga, and Sebastián Apesteguía in 2006, based on a partial skeleton with skull, holotype MCF-PHV-233.[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] In 2022, a second skeleton was referred, specimen MCF-PHV-228.[3] A third skeleton was recovered but not referred due to a lack of overlapping material. The three skeletons were excavated between 1998 and 2000.[1]
References
- ^ 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.
- ^ Dinosaur Mailing List entry which announces the discovery (includes complete abstract)
- ^ Bellardini F, Coria RA, Pino DA, Windholz GJ, Baiano MA, Martinelli AG (2022). "Osteology and phylogenetic relationships of Ligabuesaurus leanzai (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) from the Early Cretaceous of the Neuquén Basin, Patagonia, Argentina". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society