A plant-eating titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Spain.
Pronunciation: ab-DEE-toe-SOR-us
Meaning: Forgotten Lizard
Author/s: Vila
et al. (
2022)
Synonyms: None known
First Discovery: Pallars Jussà, Spain
Discovery Chart Position: #1061
Abditosaurus kuehnei
(Kuhne's Forgotten Lizard)Etymology
Abditosaurus is derived from the Latin "Abditus" (forgotten) and the Greek "sauros" (lizard), referring to the huge gap between its discovery and description.
The
species epithet,
kuehnei, honours Professor Walter Georg Kühne who discovered the specimen.
Zoobank registry:
urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:D9EFD886-7FE2-440C-AAC2-C8C88DF035A3.
• Vila B, Sellés A, Moreno-Azanza M, Razzolini NL, Gil-Delgado A, Canudo JI and Galobart A (2022) "A titanosaurian sauropod with Gondwanan affinities in the latest Cretaceous of Europe".
Nat Ecol Evol (2022). DOI: 10.1038/s41559-021-01651-5
• Lapparent AF de and Aguirre ESJ (1956) "Algunos yacimientos de Dinosaurios en el Cretacico Superior de la Cuenca de Tremp. (Prov. de Leirida, Espana)".
Estud. Geol. Inst. Invest. Lucas Mallada, 12(31-32): 37-382.
• Lapparent AF de and Aguirre ESJ (1957) "Presence de Dinosauriens dans le Cretace superieur du bassin de Tremp (province de Lerida, Espagne)".
Compte rendu sommaire des seances de la Societe de Geologie, France 1956: 261-262.
• Jiménez M, Sánchez-Chillón B, Escaso F, Mocho P, Narváez I, Ortega F and Pérez-García A (2017) "Systematic study of the historical material of Upper Cretaceous reptiles from the Tremp Basin (Catalonia, Spain) housed at the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (Madrid)".
Journal of Iberian Geology, 43(2): 217–233. DOI: 10.1007/s41513-017-0018.
• Vila B (2022) "Walter Georg Kühne (1911-1991) and the discovery of the first semi-articulated titanosaurian sauropod from Europe".
Historical Biology (advance online publication). DOI: 10.1080/08912963.2022.2100771.
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