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5 August 2017 A New Titanosaur Sauropod from the Upper Cretaceous of Patagonia, NeuquéN Province, Argentina
Edith SimóN, Leonardo Salgado, Jorge O. Calvo
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Abstract

A new titanosaur sauropod from the Upper Cretaceous of Neuquén is described, Choconsaurus baileywillisi gen. et sp. nov. The species is represented by a nearly complete series of dorsal vertebrae as well as other parts of the skeleton. The material comes from the locality of Villa El Chocón and stratigraphically from the Huincul Formation, whose age has been estimated as upper Cenomanian. The new taxon presents many autapomorphic features, including the presence of a small notch on the dorsal margin of the posterior articular surface of the cervical centra, accessory articulations lateral to the hyposphene, which are more developed in the anterior dorsal vertebrae, midand posterior dorsal vertebrae with an accessory lamina placed between the posterior centrodiapophyseal and the accessory posterior centrodiapophyseal laminae, and a hyposphene on anterior caudal vertebrae. Phylogenetic analysis recovers Choconsaurus baileywillisi as a non-eutitanosaur titanosaur, taxa that are well represented in the lower Upper Cretaceous of Patagonia. Choconsaurus baileywillisi is, to date, the most complete non-eutitanosaur titanosaur.

Edith SimóN, Leonardo Salgado, and Jorge O. Calvo "A New Titanosaur Sauropod from the Upper Cretaceous of Patagonia, NeuquéN Province, Argentina," Ameghiniana 55(1), 1-29, (5 August 2017). https://doi.org/10.5710/AMGH.01.08.2017.3051
Received: 1 September 2016; Accepted: 1 August 2017; Published: 5 August 2017
KEYWORDS
Cretácico Superior
Neuquén Province
Provincia de Neuquén
Titanosaur
Titanosaurio
Upper Cretaceous
Villa El Chocón
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