Unquillosaurus
Name:
Unquillosaurus
(Unquillo River lizard).
Phonetic: Un-kwil-lo-sor-us.
Named By: J. E. Powell - 1979.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia, Dinosauria,
Saurischia, Theropoda, Dromaeosauridae, Unenlagiinae.
Species: U. ceibalii (type).
Diet: Carnivore.
Size: Length of holotype pubis 51.4 centimetres
long. Total body size uncertain due to overall lack of fossil
remains, but roughly estimated to be somewhere between 2 and 3
meters long.
Known locations: Argentina - Los Blanquitos
Formation.
Time period: Campanian of the Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Left pubis.
Unquillosaurus is a genus of dromaeosaurid dinosaur that lived in South America during the Late Cretaceous. At the time of the genus description (and writing here), Unquillosaurus is only known from a single pubis bone (part of the pelvis), and so it is very difficult to infer much detail about this dinosaur.
Further reading
- Sobre una asociacion de Dinosaurios y otras evidencias de
vertebrados del Cr�tacico Superior de la region de La Candelaria,
Prov. de Salta, Argentina. - Ameghiniana
16(1-2):191-204. - J. E. Powell - 1979.
- Unquillosaurus ceibalii Powell, a giant
maniraptoran
(Dinosauria, Theropoda) from the Late Cretaceous of Argentina.
- Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales, nuevo
serie. 6(1): 61-66. - Novas & Agnolin - 2004.
- Aniksosaurus darwini gen. et sp. nov., a
new coelurosaurian
theropod from the early Late Cretaceous of central Patagonia,
Argentina. - Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales,
nuevo serie 8(2): 243-259. - R.D. Mart�nez and F.E.
Novas - 2006.
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