ANABISETIA
an plant-eating iguanodontian dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Argentina.
Pronunciation: AH-nuh-bee-SEH-tee-uh
Meaning: for Ana Biset
Author/s: Coria and Calvo (
2002)
Synonyms: None known
First Discovery: Neuquén, Argentina
Discovery Chart Position: #510
Anabisetia saldiviai
(for Biset and Saldivia)Etymology
Anabisetia honors the late Dr. Ana Biset, an influential archeologist from Neuquén Province in Argentina, where the remains of this animal were found.
The
species epithet,
saldiviai, is named after Roberto Saldivia (see discovery).
Discovery
The remains of
Anabisetia were discovered at
Cerro Bayo Mesa, south of Plaza Huincul in the Cerro Lisandro Formation (Rio Limay subgroup, Neuquén Group), Neuquén Province, Argentina, by local farmer Roberto Saldivia in 1985.
The
holotype (MCF-PVPH 74, housed at the Museo Carmen Funes) is a partial skeleton and skull fragments.
Three other, less complete specimens (MCF-PVPH-75, MCF-PVPH-76, MCF-PVPH-77) were found in the same quarry, and between them pretty much account for all of the bits that are missing from the holotype, apart from the skull.
Estimations
Timeline:
Era: Mesozoic
Epoch: Late Cretaceous
Stage: Turonian
Age range: 94-91 mya
Stats:
Est. max. length: 2 meters
Est. max. hip height: ?
Est. max. weight: ?
Diet: Herbivore
References
• Coria RA, Cladero G and Salgado L (1996) "Una neuva localidad fosilífera en la Formación Río Limay?, Cretácico Superior, Cerro Bayo Mesa, Provincia de Neuquén" [
A new fossiliferous locality in the ?Rio Limay Formation, Upper Cretaceous, Bayo Mesa Hill, Neuquen Province].
Ameghiniana, 33(4): 463. (English translation by Matt Carrano.)
• Coria RA and Calvo JO (2002) "A new iguanodontian ornithopod from Neuquen Basin, Patagonia, Argentina".
Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 22(3: 503-509. DOI: 10.1671/0272-4634(2002)022[0503:ANIOFN]2.0.CO;2
• Norman DB, Sues H-D, Witmer L.M and Coria RA (2004) "Basal Ornithopoda" in Weishampel, Dodson and Osmólska "
The Dinosauria: Second Edition".
• Butler RJ, Upchurch P and Norman DB (2008) "
The phylogeny of the ornithischian dinosaurs".
Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 6(1): 1-40. DOI: 10.1017/S1477201907002271
• Novas FE (2009) "
The Age of Dinosaurs in South America".
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