Menucocelsior

Field photograph to come

DV-1182Allen Fm., Argentina

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

1 find

70 million years ago

Map: C. R. Scotese, PALEOMAP

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