Notocolossus
Notocolossus | |
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Skeletal restoration | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | Saurischia |
Clade: | †Sauropodomorpha |
Clade: | †Sauropoda |
Clade: | †Macronaria |
Clade: | †Titanosauria |
Genus: | †Notocolossus González Riga et al., 2016 |
Species: | †N. gonzalezparejasi
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Binomial name | |
†Notocolossus gonzalezparejasi González Riga et al., 2016
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Notocolossus is a
.Discovery and naming
A fossil of a large
In 2016, the type species Notocolossus gonzalezparejasi was named and described by Bernardo Javier González Riga, Matthew Carl Lamanna, Leonardo Daniel Ortiz David,
The holotype, UNCUYO-LD 301, was found in a layer of the Plottier Formation dating from the Coniacian-Santonian, about eighty-six million years old. It consists of a partial skeleton lacking the skull. It contains an anterior back vertebra, an anterior tail vertebra, a right humerus and the upper part of a left pubic bone. Although the bones have not been discovered in articulation, they were considered to represent a single individual because they were found in close association on a surface of eight by eight metres. A second partial skeleton lacking the skull was referred to Notocolossus: specimen UNCUYO-LD 302 representing a smaller individual. It contains a series of five anterior tail vertebrae and a complete right foot connected to an astragalus. It was recovered on a distance of 403 metres to the holotype from a surface of five by five metres.[1]
Description
The evidence suggests that Notocolossus was among the largest
In 2016, several distinguishing traits of Notocolossus were determined. Nine of these were
The foot or
Phylogeny
Notocolossus belongs to the
The following cladogram shows the position of Notocolossus in Lognkosauria according to Gonzalez Riga and colleagues, 2018.[5]
Paleoecology
Notocolossus was discovered in the
See also
References
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