Neuquensaurus

Neuquensaurus is a genus of saltasaurid sauropod dinosaur that lived in the Late Cretaceous, about 80-66 million years ago in Argentina in South America. Its fossils were recovered from outcrops of the Anacleto Formation around Cinco Saltos, near the Neuquén river from which its name is derived.

Neuquensaurus

Jl FilpoC · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SaltasauriniPBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Sauropoda
Life habit
ground dwelling, gregariousPBDB, for Sauropoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Sauropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Sauropoda
Length
15 mWikidata

Time the record covers

At least 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 83.6 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 66 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 15 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 15 of 15 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 15 occurrences101–100 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences100–99 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences98–96 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences95–94 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences94–93 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences93–92 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences92–90 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences90–89 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences89–88 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences88–87 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences87–86 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences86–84 Mya — about 2 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 2 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences76–75 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences74–72 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences71–70 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences83.6 Mya72.2 Mya101.2 Mya65.3 Mya

15 occurrences of Neuquensaurus on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

15 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

7 formations

Anacleto — 38.84°S, 68.04°WAnacleto — 37.87°S, 67.83°WAnacleto — 38.82°S, 68.07°WBajo de la Carpa — 38.95°S, 68.23°WBajo de la Carpa — 39.73°S, 68.52°WAllen — 38.82°S, 68.07°WAsencio — 33.87°S, 57.49°WAdamantina — 25.73°S, 48.58°W? — 40.45°S, 66.62°WLecho — 26.07°S, 65.37°W

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The named rock units Neuquensaurus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Neuquensaurus and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Neuquensaurus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

31 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Neuquensaurus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

9 references

Each of the 15 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content2

Picture of Neuquensaurus

Credit
Jl FilpoC
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Structured light scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Neuquensaurus sp. · MLP:PV:1480

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itSaltasaurini through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Powell 1992