Outline: a typical sauropod
Cathartesaura
"vulture lizard"
Type species Cathartesaura anaerobica
- Lived
- 110 to 106 million years ago, Early Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Sauropods, Rebbachisauridae
- Found in
- Argentina
- Named by
- Gallina and Apesteguía 2005
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
110 million years ago
Field notes
About Cathartesaura
What it was like
Cathartesaura was a rebbachisaurid, a long-necked plant eater. It is known from a partial skeleton with bones of the back, hips and legs.
Its world
It lived about 110 to 106 million years ago, in the Cretaceous, in what is now Argentina. Its bones come from the Huincul Formation, home to the giant titanosaur Argentinosaurus and the predators Mapusaurus and Skorpiovenator.
How it was found
Gallina and Apesteguía named it in 2005. The type species is Cathartesaura anaerobica. Its name refers to the site where it was found, named for its vultures.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Rebbachisauridae
Sources: WikidataNamed in: P. A. Gallina and S. Apesteguía. 2005. Cathartesaura anaerobica gen. et sp. nov., a new rebbachisaurid (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) from the Huincul Formation (Upper Cretaceous), Río Negro, Argentina. Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales, nuevo serie 7(2):153-166