The titanosaurian dinosaur Atsinganosaurus velauciensis (Sauropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous of southern France. New material, phylogenetic affinities, and palaeobiogeographical implications

Citation

Díez Díaz, V.; Garcia, G.; Pereda-Suberbiola, X.; Jentgen-Ceschino, B.; Stein, K.; Godefroit, P.; Valentin, X. (2018). The titanosaurian dinosaur Atsinganosaurus velauciensis (Sauropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous of southern France. New material, phylogenetic affinities, and palaeobiogeographical implications. Cretaceous Research 91: 429-456. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2018.06.015

Names first published here

• Lirainosaurinae clade

Cited by genera

• Atsinganosaurus

  Assigns the type locality, Velaux-La Bastide Neuve, to the Argiles et Grès à Reptiles Formation of the Aix-en-Provence Basin, which the describing paper does not name.

• Garrigatitan

  Assigns Velaux-La Bastide Neuve to the Argiles et Grès à Reptiles Formation of the Aix-en-Provence Basin, which the describing paper does not name.

• Lohuecotitan

  Study of Atsinganosaurus recovered Lohuecotitan as a basal lithostrotian, contributing to its unstable placement.

• Matheronodon

  Assigns the Velaux locality to the Argiles et Grès à Reptiles Formation of the Aix-en-Provence Basin, naming this taxon among its fauna.

• Paludititan

  Described Atsinganosaurus and recovered Paludititan as a basal lithostrotian titanosaur

• Pyroraptor

  Names the Argiles et Grès à Reptiles as the basin's upper Campanian formation.

Cited by clades

• Lirainosaurinae

  Erected Lirainosaurinae; recovered within Lithostrotia, away from Saltasauridae.