Menucocelsior

Menuco's taller (or higher) one

• Menuco · Mapuche (place name) · the Menuco locality in Neuquén, Patagonia
• celsior · Latin · taller, higher

The name combines "Menuco", a place name tied to the fossil locality in Neuquén Province, Patagonia, with the Latin "celsior", meaning "taller" or "higher". It is a nod to the Menuco area where the fossils were found and to the animal's large size as a titanosaur. The type species is Menucocelsior arriagadai.

Named by

Rolando et al.

Year named

2022

Period

Late Cretaceous

Stages

Campanian – Maastrichtian

Found in

Allen Formation, Neuquén Province, Patagonia, Argentina

A titanosaurian sauropod (a long-necked, plant-eating dinosaur). The exact etymology wording and the exact stage range are given from memory, so please check them against the original description.