Pitekunsaurus (lat.) - a genus of dinosaurs - sauropods from the tribe Aeolosaurini , who lived during the Upper Cretaceous era ( 83.5–70.6 million years ago) on the territory of modern Argentina [2] . The only species of Pitekunsaurus macayai was described by L. Filippi and A. Garrido in 2008, whose generic name comes from pitekun , which means “open”, a species given in honor of the discoverer, explorer from the oil company Luis Macaya ( Spanish: Luis Macaya ), who found fossil in April 2004.
| † Pitekunsaurus |
| Scientific classification |
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| No rank : | Bilateral symmetrical |
| Infraclass : | Archosauromorphs |
| No rank : | Archosauriformes |
| Suborder : | † Sauropodomorphs |
| Infrastructure : | † Zauropods |
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| International scientific name |
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Pitekunsaurus Filippi et Garrido, 2008 [1] |
| Single view |
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† Pitekunsaurus macayai
Filippi et Garrido, 2008 |
Geochronology83.5–70.6 Ma | million years | Period | Era | Aeon |
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| 2,588 | Even | | | Ka | F
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th | | 23.03 | Neogene | | 66.0 | Paleogen | | 145.5 | a piece of chalk | M
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th | | 199.6 | Yura | | 251 | Triassic | | 299 | Permian | P
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th | | 359.2 | Carbon | | 416 | Devonian | | 443.7 | Silur | | 488.3 | Ordovician | | 542 | Cambrian | | 4570 | Precambrian |
◄ Nowadays◄ Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction◄ Triassic extinction◄ Mass Permian Extinction◄ Devonian extinction◄ Ordovician-Silurian extinction◄ Cambrian explosion |
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