Cathartesaura
Cathartesaura was a medium-sized, long-necked plant-eater that lived in what is now Argentina. It had a light, well-muscled neck and special air pockets in its backbone. This dinosaur was a rebbachisaurid, a group of sauropods that survived into the Late Cretaceous.12
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Cathartesaura is known from a partial skeleton that includes neck bones, tail bones, a shoulder blade, a hip bone, and a thigh bone.2
Its neck had special air pockets (pneumatic chambers) that made it lighter.1
Cathartesaura lived about 97 to 93 million years ago, during the Cenomanian and Turonian ages.1
It was a rebbachisaurid, a group of sauropods that were some of the last diplodocoid dinosaurs.1
The name Cathartesaura comes from the turkey vulture (Cathartes aura), because many vultures live at the fossil site called La Buitrera (which means 'the vulture place').1
The species name anaerobica honors an Argentine adhesive company that helped with the fossil's extraction.1

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?How big was Cathartesaura?
Cathartesaura was a medium-sized sauropod, but scientists do not know its exact length or weight because only a partial skeleton has been found.12
?What did Cathartesaura eat?
Cathartesaura was a herbivore, meaning it ate plants. It had a long neck to reach leaves and ferns.1
?When did Cathartesaura live?
Cathartesaura lived about 97 to 93 million years ago, during the Cenomanian and Turonian ages of the Late Cretaceous.1
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- Izina rya siyansi
- Cathartesaura
- Yiswe na
- Gallina and Apesteguía 20053
- Itsinda
- Izifite amajosi maremare
- Umuryango / ishami
- Rebbachisauridae3
- Ishyirwa mu byiciro
- Sauropodomorpha > Sauropoda > Diplodocoidea3
- Imyaka y'amabuye
- imyaka miliyoni 110 kugeza 106 (Albian)3
- Inzego z'amabuye
- Huincul3
- Ibihugu
- Arijantine3
- Ibisigazwa byanditswe
- 1 muri The Paleobiology Database3
- Ivumburwa
- Cathartesaura was named by Pablo Gallina and Sebastián Apesteguía in 2005. The fossils were found at La Buitrera in the Huincul Formation of Argentina.32
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- Scientists are still unsure about the exact relationships between different rebbachisaurids, including Cathartesaura.2
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- Cathartesaura (en.wikipedia.org)
- Cathartesaura anaerobica gen. et sp. nov., a new rebbachisaurid (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) from the Huincul Formation (Upper Cretaceous), Río Negro, Argentina (sedici.unlp.edu.ar)
- Cathartesaura in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): imyaka, ahantu, inzego z'amabuye, ishyirwa mu byiciro.
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