Genus
Valid Extinct

Microsaurops

Kuhn 1964

Microcoelus is a dubious genus of small titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Bajo de la Carpa Formation, Argentina. It is known from only a single dorsal vertebra, although a left humerus was formerly referred to this taxon, but it is now considered to belong to Neuquensaurus. The type species is M. patagonicus, described by British paleontologist Richard Lydekker in 1893.

Temporal range
PBDB occurrences
0
Group
Dinosaures
Herbivore Ground dwelling, gregarious Terrestrial
Microsaurops
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Microcoelus patagonicus Dorsal vertebra. © Richard Lydekker · Public domain · Wikimedia
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Classification
Dinosauria Unranked clade
Saurischia Unranked clade
Sauropodomorpha Unranked clade
Massopoda Unranked clade
Sauropodiformes Unranked clade
Sauropoda Unranked clade
Microsaurops Genus
Synonyms (1)
Microsaurus replaced by Microsaurops
Images 1
Bibliography
Original description
O. Kuhn. 1964. Ungelöste Probleme der Stammesgeschichte der Amphibien und Reptilien [Unsolved problems of the phylogeny of amphibians and reptiles]. Jahreshefte des Vereins für vaterländische Naturkunde in Württemberg 118/119:293-325