Genus
Valid Extinct

Limaysaurus

Limay lizard
Salgado et al. 2004

Limaysaurus is a genus of rebbachisaurid sauropod dinosaurs which lived during the late Cretaceous period, about 99.7 to 94 million years ago, in the Cenomanian, in what is now South America. It is represented by a single species, L. tessonei.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
6
Group
Dinosaures
Herbivore Ground dwelling, gregarious Terrestrial
Limaysaurus
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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
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Limaysaurus Genus
Fossil sites 6 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇦🇷 Argentina
5
🇧🇷 Brazil
1
Geological formations
Candeleros
4
Alcântara
1
Huincul
1
Temporal distribution
Cenomanian (100.5–93.9 Ma)
6
Species (1)
Limaysaurus tessonei 101 Ma
Images 1
Bibliography
Original description
L. Salgado, A. Garrido, and S. E. Cocca, J. R. Cocca. 2004. Lower Cretaceous rebbachisaurid sauropods from Cerro Aguada del León (Lohan Cura Formation), Neuquén province, northwestern Patagonia, Argentina. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 24(4):903-912 DOI ↗
Bibliography (3)
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 ↗
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