Campananeyen
Field photograph to come
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
110 million years ago
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