Laplatasaurus
Laplatasaurus (meaning "La Plata lizard", named for La Plata, Argentina) is a genus of titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur that lived during the Late Cretaceous in South America, with the holotype and only known specimen found in the Anacleto Formation.
| Laplatasaurus Temporal range: Campanian ~ | |
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| Tibia & fibula of Laplatasaurus. Scale bar equals 10cm. | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | †Sauropodomorpha |
| Clade: | †Sauropoda |
| Clade: | †Macronaria |
| Clade: | †Titanosauria |
| Genus: | †Laplatasaurus |
| Species: | †L. araukanicus |
| Binomial name | |
| †Laplatasaurus araukanicus Huene, 1929 | |
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