[D] Puertasaurus reuili [sG] [T]
Describer
Novas, Salgado, Calvo & Agnolin, 2005
Time
Cretaceous Late Maastrichtian
Classification
Saurischia Sauropodomorpha Sauropoda Titanosauria
Diet
Herbivore
Fossilsite
Pari Ake Formation, Cerro Los Hornos, La Leona, Santa Cruz Province, Argentina
Length
35 to 40 meter
Info
Genus - Typespecies
Etymology
In honour to Pablo Puerta and Santiago Reuil, discoverers and preparators of the specimen
Holotype
MPM 10002 consisting of four disarticulated vertebrae, including most of a cervical vertebra, a complete dorsal 2 (3.48 feet (1.06 meters) tall and 5.51 feet (1.68 meters wide), 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)