Campananeyen

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DV-1228Candeleros Fm., Argentina

Campananeyen

DV-1228 · type species Campananeyen fragilissimus

Lived
113 to 110 million years ago, Early Cretaceous
Diet
Herbivore
Group
Sauropods, Rebbachisauridae
Found in
Argentina
Named by
Lerzo et al. 2024

Field notes

About Campananeyen

Campananeyen was a plant-eating sauropod that lived in the Early Cretaceous, 113 to 110 million years ago. It belongs to the family Rebbachisauridae.

The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Campananeyen, from Argentina. Its fossils come from the Candeleros Formation. It was named by Lerzo et al. in 2024.

The evidence

Where its fossils were found

Today

1 find

110 million years ago

Map: C. R. Scotese, PALEOMAP

Lived alongside

Found in the same rock formations.

Close relatives

Other members of Rebbachisauridae.

Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: L. N. Lerzo, F. Torcida Fernández-Baldor, and J. I. Canale, J. A. Whitlock, A. Otero, P. A. Gallina. 2024. They all floated in the cretaceous: new rebbachisaurid (Sauropoda, Diplodocoidea) with a highly pneumatized skeleton from the Upper Cretaceous (lower Cenomanian) of Patagonia, Argentina. Historical Biology