Rinconsauria
unranked clade · Calvo et al. 2007 · accepted · extinct
26 descendant taxa · 14 fossil sites · 7 formations · 3 countries
Lived when
Cretaceous – Paleogene
100.5–66 million years ago
Found where
3 countries
7 rock formations
Fossil record
14 sites
9 catalogued specimens
Inside this group
Immediate children
- Terminal taxon — no children recorded.
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Facts from the record
- Its fossils span about 35 million years, from 100.5 to 66 million years ago.
- The youngest known fossil is around 66 million years old — that is roughly 220 times further back than the whole of human history.
- Rinconsauria was named in 2007 (Calvo et al. 2007) — 19 years ago.
- Fossils have been recorded in 3 countries and 7 named rock formations.
- 9 individual specimens are catalogued in museum collections.
- This group contains 26 named taxa, including 13 species.
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Data from the Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0).