Menucocelsior
Name:
Menucocelsior
(the taller one from Salitral Ojo del Agua).
Phonetic: Men-u-co-sel-se-or.
Named By: M. A. Rolando, J. A. Garcia
Mars�, F. L. Agnol�n, M. J. Motta, S. Rodazilla
& F. E. Novas - 2022.
Classification: Chordata, Dinosauria,
Saurischia, Sauropodomorpha, Sauropoda, Macronaria,
Titanosauria, Eutitanosauria.
Species: M. arriagadai
(type).
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Holotype individual roughly estimated to have
been about 8 meters long.
Known locations: Argentina - Allen Formation.
Time period: Mid Campanian/Early Maastrichtian of
the Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Partial post cranial remains.
Menucocelsior
is a genus of titanosaurian
dinosaur that lived in South America during
the late Cretaceous.
Further reading
- The sauropod record of Salitral Ojo del Agua: An Upper
Cretaceous (Allen Formation) fossiliferous locality from northern
Patagonia, Argentina. - Cretaceous Research. 129: 105029.
- M. A. Rolando, J. A. Garcia Mars�, F. L. Agnol�n,
M. J. Motta, S. Rodazilla & F. E. Novas -
2022.
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