Muyelensaurus

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Muyelensaurus
Fossil range: Late Cretaceous

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Sauropsida
Superorder:	Dinosauria
Order:	Saurischia
Suborder:	Sauropodomorpha
Infraorder:	Sauropoda
(unranked)	Titanosauria
Family:	unknown
Genus:	Muyelensaurus Calvo et al, 2007

Species

M. pecheni Calvo et al., 2007 (type)

Muyelensaurus is a genus of titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Argentina. Fossils have been recovered from the Neuquén province in Patagonia. The type species is M. pecheni. The name Muyelensaurus first appeared in a 2007 paper by Argentine paleontologists Jorge Calvo of the Universidad Nacional del Comahue and Bernardo González Riga of the Laboratorio de Paleovertebrados, and Brazilian paleontologist Juan Porfiri of the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.

[edit] References

Calvo, J.O.; González-Riga, B.J.; and Porfiri, J.D. (2007) "Muyelensaurus pecheni gen. et sp. nov., a new titanosaur sauropod from the Late Cretaceous of Neuquén, Patagonia, Argentina." Arquivos do Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro 65(4):485-504 PDF