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Novas, F.E., Salgado, L., Calvo, J. & Agnolin, F. 2005. Giant titanosaur (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) from the Late Cretaceous of Patagonia. Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales, nueva serie, 7(1), 37-42. [Puertasaurus reuili]

A new Titanosaurid from the Pari Ake Formation,Cerro Los Hornos, La Leona, Santa Cruz Province, Argentina. Etymology: in honour to Pablo Puerta and Santiago Reuil, discoverers and preparators of the specimen Holotype:most of a cervical vertebra, a complete dorsal 2 and the centra of two caudal vertebrae Diagnosis: combination of gigantic size; cervical neural spine considerably inflated, being transversally wider than the vertebral centrum and bearing strong dorsolateral ridges; caudal cervicals with spinoprezuygapophyseal laminae transversely thick and dorsoventrally deep; cranial dorsal vertebrae extremely short (centrum width/centrum length: 1)

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