El Museo Municipal Argentino Urquiza ya tiene su primer dinosaurio terópodo
Ya se encuentra publicado en versión online el trabajo sobre este dinosaurio carnívoro, un nuevo abelisaurio, que proviene de La Invernada (Neuquén, Argentina) de rocas de la Formación Bajo de la Carpa. La excelente preservación y la significativa información que aportó el ejemplar resultaron relevantes para avanzar en el conocimiento de este grupo de terópodos, los abelisaurios. Viavenator ("cazador del camino") exxoni gen. et sp. nov. es el primero dado a conocer de una serie de ejemplares que han sido recuperados en la zona de La Invernada gracias al enorme apoyo de la empresa Exxonmobil.
Filippi, LS, Méndez, AH, Juárez Valieri, R. & Garrido, AC. 2016. A new brachyrostran with hypertrophied axial structures reveals an unexpected radiation of latest Cretaceous abelisaurids. Creataceous Research 61:209-219.


Bernardo J. González Riga, Matthew C. Lamanna, Leonardo D. Ortiz David,
Jorge O. Calvo & Juan P. Coria

Titanosauria is an exceptionally diverse, globally-distributed clade of sauropod dinosaurs that includes the largest known land animals. Knowledge of titanosaurian pedal structure is critical to understanding the stance and locomotion of these enormous herbivores and, by extension, gigantic terrestrial vertebrates as a whole. However, completely preserved pedes are extremely rare among Titanosauria, especially as regards the truly giant members of the group. Here we describe Notocolossus gonzalezparejasi gen. et sp. nov. from the Upper Cretaceous of Mendoza Province, Argentina. With a powerfully-constructed humerus 1.76 m in length, Notocolossus is one of the largest known dinosaurs. Furthermore, the complete pes of the new taxon exhibits a strikingly compact, homogeneous metatarsus—seemingly adapted for bearing extraordinary weight—and truncated unguals, morphologies that are otherwise unknown in Sauropoda. The pes underwent a near-progressive reduction in the number of phalanges along the line to derived titanosaurs, eventually resulting in the reduced hind foot of these sauropods.

González Riga, BJ., Lamanna, MC., Ortiz David, LD., Calvo, JO. & Coria, JP. 2016 A gigantic new dinosaur from Argentina and the evolution of the sauropod hind foot. Nature. Scientific Reports. DOI: 10.1038/srep19165

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