Huallasaurus

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Huallasaurus
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,
~85–66  Ma
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Reconstructed skeleton at Natural Sciences Museum
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Ornithischia
Clade: Ornithopoda
Family: Hadrosauridae
Subfamily: Saurolophinae
Clade: Austrokritosauria
Genus: Huallasaurus
Rozadilla et al., 2022
Species:
H. australis
Binomial name
Huallasaurus australis
(Bonaparte et al., 1984)
Synonyms
  • Kritosaurus australiset al., 1984
  • Secernosaurus australis(Bonaparte et al., 1984) Wagner, 2001

Huallasaurus (meaning "duck lizard") is an extinct genus of saurolophine hadrosaur from the Late Cretaceous Los Alamitos Formation of Patagonia in Argentina. The type and only species is H. australis. Originally named as a species of Kritosaurus in 1984, [1] it was long considered a synonym of Secernosaurus [2] before being recognized as its own distinct genus in a 2022 study, different from other members of Kritosaurini. [3]

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Discovery

The generic name, "Huallasaurus," combines "hualla," the Mapudungun word for "duck," and the Greek "sauros," meaning "lizard." The specific name, "australis," is derived from the Latin "australis," meaning "southern," after the discovery of the holotype specimen in southern Argentina. [3] [1]

Classification

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Life restoration

Rozadilla et al. (2022) named Huallasaurus and the closely related Kelumapusaura , recovering them in a clade of entirely South American saurolophines. [3] In the 2023 description of the South American hadrosauroid Gonkoken , Alarcón-Muñoz et al. recovered similar results, implementing a modified version of the phylogenetic matrix of Rozadilla et al. They named the clade containing Huallasaurus, Kelumapusaura, and other South American saurolophines as the Austrokritosauria, recovering it as the sister taxon to the Kritosaurini. The results of their phylogenetic analyses of Saurolophinae are displayed in the cladogram below: [4]

Saurolophinae

Wulagasaurus Wulagasaurus dongi.png

Acristavus Acristavus gagslarsoni.png

Maiasaura Maiasaura peeblesorum.png

Probrachylophosaurus Probrachylophosaurus bergei.png

Brachylophosaurus Brachylophosaurus canadensis.png

Austrokritosauria

Secernosaurus Secernosaurus koerneri.png

Bonapartesaurus Bonapartesaurus rionegrensis.png

Kelumapusaura Kelumapusaura machi.png

Huallasaurus Huallasaurus australis.png

Kritosaurini

Kritosaurus Kritosaurus navajovius.png

Rhinorex Rhinorex condrupus.png

Gryposaurus latidens

Gryposaurus notabilis Gryposaurus notabilis.png

Gryposaurus monumentensis

Kamuysaurus Kamuysaurus japonicus.png

Prosaurolophus Prosaurolophus maximus.png

Saurolophus osborni Saurolophus osborni.png

Saurolophus angustirostris Saurolophus angustirostris.png

Laiyangosaurus Laiyangosaurus youngi.png

Kerberosaurus Kerberosaurus manakini.png

Shantungosaurus Shantungosaurus giganteus.png

Edmontosaurus regalis
Edmontosaurus BW.jpg

Edmontosaurus annectens Anatotitan BW.jpg

Paleoecology

Huallasaurus is known from the Late Cretaceous Los Alamitos Formation of Río Negro Province, Argentina. Aeolosaurus rionegrinus , a titanosaurian sauropod, has also been named from this formation. [3]

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