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Antarctosaurus > A.wichmannianus
(Huene,1927) A.giganteus
(Huene,1927)
> A.brasiliensis
(Arid
& Vizotto,1972)
A.wichmannianus
is known from a supposedly associated partial skeleton of a very
large animal, consisting of a cranium, partial mandible, fragmentary
cervical, scapula, incomplete humerus, metacarpus, incomplete
ischium , femur, tibia, fibula, metatarsus, and fragments. Other
specimens of a large animal (Bonaparte and Bossi,1967) have been
referred to this genus.
Among the distinguishing features of the skull fragment are
the very slender parasphenoid ( in sharp contrast to those of Camarasaurus
and especially Quaesitosaurus)
and the large prefrontal, whose articular surface with the frontal
occupies more than half of the rostral margin of that element and
suggests that the missing nasal must be quite different from that of
either Diplodocus
or Camarasaurus.
The mandible is square in front like that of Diplodocus.
Largely on the basis of the similarities in the mandible and weak
dentition, Huene,1929 has restored the skull along the lines of Diplodocus,
but much of this restoration is hypothetical. A single badly
preserved cervical is of no diagnostic value.
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