Menucocelsior
Field photograph to come
Menucocelsior
DV-1182 · type species Menucocelsior arriagadai
- Lived
- 72 to 66 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Sauropods
- Found in
- Argentina
- Named by
- Aranciaga Rolando et al. 2022
Field notes
About Menucocelsior
Menucocelsior was a plant-eating sauropod that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 72 to 66 million years ago.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Menucocelsior, from Argentina. Its fossils come from the Allen Formation. It was named by Aranciaga Rolando et al. in 2022.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
70 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Eutitanosauria.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: M. Aranciaga Rolando, J. A. Garcia Marsà, and F. L. Agnolín, M. J. Motta, S. Rozadilla, F. E. Novas. 2022. The sauropod record of Salitral Ojo del Agua: A Upper Cretaceous (Allen Formation) fossiliferous locality from northern Patagonia, Argentina. Cretaceous Research 129:105029:1-25