Huinculsaurus
HWIN-kul-SORE-us /ˌhwɪnkʊlˈsɔːrəs/
Accepted genus
Huincul lizard
- Huincul · Place name · Huincul Formation / Huincul area, Argentina
- sauros · Greek · lizard
The name combines "Huincul", after the Huincul Formation (and the town of Villa El Chocón/Huincul area) in Neuquén Province, Argentina where the fossils were found, with the Greek word for lizard. It therefore means roughly "Huincul lizard". The only named species is Huinculsaurus montesi.
- Named by
- Baiano et al.
- Year named
- 2022
- Period
- Late Cretaceous
- Stages
- Cenomanian – Turonian
- Found in
- Huincul Formation, Neuquén Province, Patagonia, Argentina
A small ceratosaurian theropod, described as an abelisauroid (a noasaurid-grade/abelisaurid-related ceratosaur). Valid genus; exact classification within Abelisauroidea may be debated.