Dinosauria›Ornithischia
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Gasparinisaura Gasparinisaura cincosaltensis Coria and Salgado 1996
/ɡˈæspɛɹˌɪnɪsˌɔːɹə/
estimated
Late Cretaceous (Campanian) · 83.6–72.2 Mya
Key Statistics
Diet
herbivore
Locomotion
bipedal
inferred from clade
Habitat
ground-dwelling
Social
herding
Where It Was Found
Country
Argentina
Region
Río Negro
Formation
Anacleto
Dig sites
3
distinct collections
Overview
Gasparinisaura cincosaltensis is an ornithopod dinosaur known from the Late Cretaceous, roughly 83.6–72.2 million years ago. It was a herbivore. It is recorded as ground-dwelling and herding. Fossils have been recovered from Río Negro, Argentina. It was named by Coria and Salgado 1996. The species is represented by 3 recorded occurrences in the Paleobiology Database.
Fossil Record Completeness
How much of this profile is grounded in the fossil record
~11%
confidence from occurrence count
Based on 3 recorded occurrences in the Paleobiology Database.
Geologic Time
Where Gasparinisaura cincosaltensis sits in deep time
Gasparinisaura
252 Mya201 Mya145 Mya66 Mya
Relationships
Part of a wider fossil web
These species share Gasparinisaura cincosaltensis's place in deep time — computed from overlapping age ranges, shared clades, and inferred ecology. Predator–prey pairs additionally have to have been dug up in the same place.