Lower Cretaceous Period
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Pterodaustro guinazui

Specimen from the Lagarcito Formation, San Luis, Argentina. The specimen found in 1970, is near complete and disarticulated on a slab.

Holotype:  PLV 2571 - right humerus 80 mm long, (Bonaparte 1970).  Institute Miguel Lillo, Univ. Nac. Tucuman, Argentina.

Four other associated specimens are known.

Bonaparte J F, 1970, Pterodaustro guinazui gen.et sp.nov.. Pterosaurio de la formacion Lagarcito, Provincia de San Luis, Argentina, Acta Geologica Lilloana, 10(10):207-226

Bonaparte J F, 1971, Descripcion del craneo y mandibulas de Pterodaustro guinazi (Pterodactyloidea - Pterodaustriidae), de la Formacion Lagarcito, San Luis, Argentina, Publ. Mus. Mun. Cienc. Nat. Mar del Plata, Pp. 263-272

Codorniú L. and Chiappe L. M.  2004, Early juvenile pterosaurs (Pterodactyloides: Pterodaustro guinazui) from the Lower Cretaceous of Central Argentina.  Can. J. Earth Sci./Rev. Can. Sci. Terre 41(1): 9-18