ARGENTINA

NC SANTA CRUZ PROVINCE

LA COLORADA

LAGUNA COLORADA FORMATION

EL TRANQUILO GROUP (UPPER EL TRANQUILO FORMATION)

COLORADENSE SUPERIOR

?NORIAN STAGE

MIDDLE LATE TRIASSIC EPOCH

LATE TRIASSIC

STEM: TETRAPODA GOODRICH, 1930

SUPERCLASS: AMNIOTA HAECKEL, 1866

CLASS: REPTILIA LAURENTI, 1768

SUBCLASS: DIAPSIDA OSBORN, 1904

SUPERLEGION: NEODIAPSIDA BENTON, 1985

LEGION: ARCHOSAUROMORPHA HUENE, 1946

SUBLEGION: DINOSAUROMORPHA BENTON & NORMAN IN BENTON, 1985

INFRALEGION: DINOSAURIFORMES NOVAS, 1992

SUPERCOHORT: DINOSAURIA OWEN, 1842

COHORT: ORNITHISCHIFORMES COOPER, 1985

SUPERORDER: SAUROPODOMORPHA HUENE, 1932

ORDER: PROSAUROPODA HUENE, 1920 (emend)

SUBORDER: PLATEOSAURIA TORNIER, 1913

Family: PLATEOSAURIDAE Marsh, 1895

*Mussaurus patagonicus

MAGNORDER: ORNITHISCHIA SEELEY, 1888

SUPERORDER: NEORNITHISCHIA COOPER, 1985

GRANDORDER: ORNITHOPODA MARSH, 1871

MICRORDER: MARGINOCEPHALIA SERENO, 1986

ORDER: HETERODONTOSAURIA COOPER, 1985 (emend)

Family: HETERODONTOSAURIDAE Kuhn, 1966

cf. Heterodontosaurus sp


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