Outline: a typical sauropod
Leinkupal
"vanishing family"
- Lived
- 139 to 133 million years ago, Early Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Sauropods, Diplodocidae
- Found in
- Argentina
- Named by
- Gallina et al. 2014
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
135 million years ago
Field notes
About Leinkupal
What it was like
Leinkupal was a diplodocid, a long-necked, whip-tailed sauropod related to Diplodocus. It is known from a few back and tail bones.
Its world
It lived in the Early Cretaceous, in what is now Argentina. It comes from the Bajada Colorada Formation, where it shared the land with the spiny-necked Bajadasaurus and the early titanosaur Ninjatitan. It was one of the last diplodocids, a family that was disappearing by then.
How it was found
Gallina and colleagues named Leinkupal in 2014.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Diplodocidae
- GaleamopusLate Jurassic to Early Cretaceous
- TornieriaLate Jurassic to Early Cretaceous
- ArdetosaurusLate Jurassic
Sources: WikidataNamed in: P. A. Gallina, S. Apesteguia, and A. Haluza, J. I. Canale. 2014. A diplodocid sauropod survivor from the Early Cretaceous of South America. PLoS One 9(5):e97128