Unranked clade
Valid Extinct

Limaysaurinae

Whitlock 2011

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Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
9
Group
Dinosaures
Herbivore Ground dwelling, gregarious Terrestrial
Limaysaurinae
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Limaysaurus tessonei skeleton restoration, Copenhagen. © FunkMonk · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia
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Classification
Dinosauria Unranked clade
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Saurischia Unranked clade
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Sauropodomorpha Unranked clade
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Massopoda Unranked clade
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Sauropodiformes Unranked clade
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Sauropoda Unranked clade
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Gravisauria Unranked clade
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Eusauropoda Unranked clade
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Neosauropoda Unranked clade
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Diplodocoidea Unranked clade
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Diplodocimorpha Unranked clade
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Rebbachisauridae Unranked clade
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Khebbashia Unranked clade
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Limaysaurinae Unranked clade
Fossil sites 9 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇦🇷 Argentina
8
🇧🇷 Brazil
1
Geological formations
Huincul
2
Bajo Barreal
2
Alcântara
1
Temporal distribution
Cenomanian (100.5–93.9 Ma)
3
Albian (113.2–100.5 Ma)
6
Images 1
Bibliography
Original description
J. A. Whitlock. 2011. A phylogenetic analysis of Diplodocoidea (Saurischia: Sauropoda). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 161:872-915 DOI ↗
Bibliography (5)
T. B. Ribeiro, P. M. M. Brito, and P. V. L. G. da Costa Pereira. 2023. The predominance of teeth in the non-avian dinosaur record from Cretaceous Brazil: a review. Historical Biology DOI ↗
L. M. Ibiricu, G. A. Casal, and R. D. Martínez, M. C. Lamanna, M. Luna, L. Salgado. 2015. New material of Katepensaurus goicoecheai (Sauropoda: Diplodocoidea) and its significance for the morphology and evolution of Rebbachisauridae. Ameghiniana 52(4):430-446 DOI ↗
P. A. Gallina and S. Apesteguía. 2005. Cathartesaura anaerobica gen. et sp. nov., a new rebbachisaurid (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) from the Huincul Formation (Upper Cretaceous), Río Negro, Argentina. Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales, nuevo serie 7(2):153-166 DOI ↗
J. O. Calvo. 1999. Dinosaurs and other vertebrates of the Lake Ezequiel Ramos Mexía area, Neuquén-Patagonia, Argentina. Y. Tomida, T. H. Rich, and P. Vickers-Rich (eds.), Proceedings of the Second Gondwanan Dinosaur Symposium, National Science Museum Monographs 15:13-45
J. O. Calvo and L. Salgado. 1995. Rebbachisaurus tessonei sp. nov. a new Sauropoda from the Albian-Cenomanian of Argentina; new evidence on the origin of the Diplodocidae. GAIA 11:13-33