Genus
Valid Extinct

Qunkasaura

Mocho et al. 2024

Qunkasaura is a genus of saltasauroid titanosaur dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous (Campanian–Maastrichtian) Lo Hueco site of the Villalba de la Sierra Formation of Spain. The type species is Qunkasaura pintiquiniestra.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
1
Group
Dinosaures
Herbivore Ground dwelling, gregarious Terrestrial
Qunkasaura
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Qunkasaura is a titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur that lived approximately 75 million years ago in the Late Cretaceous of what is now Spain. Specifically, it is a saltasaurid titanosaur, and its discovery marks the first instance of two distinct lineages of this group present in the same locality. In the Late Cretaceous, Europe was a large archipelago, and the coexistence of these differing lineages indicates that saltasaurids arrived in the Iberian Peninsula much later than other groups of dinosaurs. © TotalDino · CC BY 4.0 · 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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Macronaria Unranked clade
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Titanosauriformes Unranked clade
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Somphospondyli Unranked clade
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Titanosauria Unranked clade
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Lithostrotia Unranked clade
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Saltasauroidea Superfamily
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Lohuecosauria Unranked clade
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Saltasauridae Unranked clade
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Qunkasaura Genus
Fossil sites 1 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇪🇸 Spain
1
Geological formations
Villalba de la Sierra
1
Temporal distribution
Campanian (83.6–72.2 Ma)
1
Species (1)
Qunkasaura pintiquiniestra 84 Ma
Images 1
Bibliography
Original description
P. Mocho, F. Escaso, and F. Marcos-Fernández, A. Páramo, J. L. Sanz, D. Vidal, F. Ortega. 2024. A Spanish saltasauroid titanosaur reveals Europe as a melting pot of endemic and immigrant sauropods in the Late Cretaceous. Communications Biology 7:1016:1-10 DOI ↗
Bibliography (1)
P. Mocho, F. Escaso, and F. Marcos-Fernández, A. Páramo, J. L. Sanz, D. Vidal, F. Ortega. 2024. A Spanish saltasauroid titanosaur reveals Europe as a melting pot of endemic and immigrant sauropods in the Late Cretaceous. Communications Biology 7:1016:1-10 DOI ↗