SEKTENSAURUS
a possible elasmarian ornithopod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Argentina.
Pronunciation: SEK-ten-SOR-us
Meaning: Island lizard
Author/s: Ibiricu
et al. (
2019)
Synonyms: None known
First Discovery: Chubut Province, Argentina
Discovery Chart Position: #1004
Sektensaurus sanjuanboscoi
(Island Lizard, honouring San Juan Bosco University)Etymology
Sektensaurus is derived from the Tehuelche "sekten" (island) and the Greek "sauros" (lizard).
The
species epithet,
sanjuanboscoi, honours the Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia San Juan Bosco.
Discovery
The first remains of
Sektensaurus were discovered in the Lago Colhué Huapí Formation (Golfo San Jorge Basin),
within a 3m area on one of the Lake Colhué Huapi islands that appear during periods of low water level, Chubut province, Argentina, by Marcello Luna in 1993. The
holotype (UNPSJB-PV 1054) is ???.
Estimations
Timeline:
Era: Mesozoic
Epoch: Late Cretaceous
Stage: Campanian
Age range: 76-72 mya
Stats:
Est. max. length: ?
Est. max. hip height: ?
Est. max. weight: ?
Diet: Herbivore
Sektensaurus
sanjuanboscoi
References
• Ibiricu LM, Martínez RD, Lamanna MC, Casal GA, Luna M, Harris JD and Lacovara KD (2010) "A Medium-Sized Ornithopod (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) from the Upper Cretaceous Bajo Barreal Formation of Lago Colhué Huapi, Southern Chubut Province, Argentina".
Annals of the Carnegie Museum, 79(1): 39-50. DOI: 10.2992/007.079.0103.
• Ibiricu LM, Casal GA, Martínez RD, Luna M, Canale JI, Álvarez BN and González Riga B (2019) "A new ornithopod dinosaur (Dinosauria; Ornithischia) from the Late Cretaceous of central Patagonia".
Cretaceous Research, 98: 276–291. DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2019.02.001.
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