Padillasaurus

Padillasaurus
Temporal range: Early Cretaceous, Barremian
Vertebrae of holotype JACVM 0001
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Saurischia
Clade: Sauropodomorpha
Clade: Sauropoda
Clade: Macronaria
Clade: Titanosauriformes
Genus: Padillasaurus
Carballido et al., 2015
Type species
Padillasaurus leivaensis
Carballido et al., 2015

Padillasaurus is an extinct genus of titanosauriform sauropod known from the Early Cretaceous (Barremian stage) Paja Formation in Colombia. It contains a single species, Padillasaurus leivaensis, known only from a single partial axial skeleton. Initially described as a brachiosaurid, it was considered to be the first South American brachiosaurid ever discovered and named. Before its discovery, the only known brachiosaurid material on the continent was very fragmentary and from the Jurassic period.[1] However, a more recent study finds it to be a basal somphospondylan.[2]

  1. ^ José L. Carballido; Diego Pol; Mary L. Parra Ruge; Santiago Padilla Bernal; María E. Páramo-Fonseca; Fernando Etayo-Serna (2015). "A new Early Cretaceous brachiosaurid (Dinosauria, Neosauropoda) from northwestern Gondwana (Villa de Leyva, Colombia)". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 35 (5): e980505. Bibcode:2015JVPal..35E0505C. doi:10.1080/02724634.2015.980505. S2CID 129498917.
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