Atsinganosaurus
| Atsinganosaurus Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, 66Ma | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Suborder: | †Sauropodomorpha |
| Clade: | †Somphospondyli |
| Clade: | †Titanosauria |
| Genus: | †Atsinganosaurus Garcia et al., 2010 |
| Species: | † A. velauciensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Atsinganosaurus velauciensis Garcia et al., 2010 | |
Atsinganosaurus is a genus of titanosaurian dinosaur which existed in what is now France during the late Cretaceous period. Well-preserved remains (and the only known) of Atsinganosaurus were collected from the Grès à Reptiles Formation of the Aix-en-Provence Basin. Atsinganosaurus was first described by Géraldine Garcia, Sauveur Amico, Francois Fournier, Eudes Thouand and Xavier Valentin in 2010, and the type species is Atsinganosaurus velauciensis.
The generic name is derived from the Greek word "τσιγγάνος" or "αθίγγανος", both meaning "gypsy", which refers to the possible migration from east to west of the species. The specific name is named after its finding place, Velaux - La Bastide Neuve.[1]
References
- ↑ Géraldine Garcia, Sauveur Amico, Francois Fournier, Eudes Thouand and Xavier Valentin (2010). "A new Titanosaur genus (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) from the Late Cretaceous of southern France and its paleobiogeographic implications". Bulletin de la Societe Geologique de France 181 (3): 269–277. doi:10.2113/gssgfbull.181.3.269.