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Rinconsauria
Pronunciation: RIN-con SOR-ree-uh
Author: Calvo et al.
Year: 2007
Meaning: Rincon lizards
Locomotion: Quadrupedal (four legs)
Synonyms: None known
Author: Calvo et al.
Year: 2007
Meaning: Rincon lizards
Locomotion: Quadrupedal (four legs)
Synonyms: None known
[Calvo et al., 2007]Definition
Muyelensaurus, Rinconsaurus, their most recent common ancestor and all of its descendants.
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Etymology
Rinconsauria is derived from "Rincon" (for the Rincon de la sauce area where its first two members—Muyelensaurus and Rinconsaurus—were found ), and the Greek "sauros" (lizard) and "-ia" (neuter plural).
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References
• Calvo JO, González Riga BJ and Porfiri JD (2007) "A new titanosaur sauropod from the Late Cretaceous of Neuquén, Patagonia, Argentina". Arquivos do Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, 65(4): 485-504.
• González Riga BJ, Lamanna MC, Otero A, Ortiz David LD, Kellner AWA and Ibiricu LM (2019) "An overview of the appendicular skeletal anatomy of South American titanosaurian sauropods, with definition of a newly recognized clade". Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências. 91 (suppl 2): e20180374. DOI: 10.1590/0001-3765201920180374.
• Mannion PD, Upchurch P, Jin X and Zheng W (2019) "New information on the Cretaceous sauropod dinosaurs of Zhejiang Province, China: impact on Laurasian titanosauriform phylogeny and biogeography". Royal Society Open Science, 6(8). DOI: 10.1098/rsos.191057.
