![Diagram depicting the currently named Dinosauria from the Late Cretaceous Allen Formation of Argentina. Dinosaur taxa:
Aeolosaurus sp. → Salitral Moreno locality, Río Negro Province.[1] Length = 15 meters.[2]
Austroraptor cabazai → Santa Rosa Basin locality, Río Negro Province.[3][4] Length = 6 meters.[2]
Bonapartenykus ultimus → Salitral Ojo de Agua locality, Río Negro Province.[5] Length = 2.5 meters.[5]
Bonapartesaurus rionegrensis → Salitral Moreno locality, Río Negro Province.[6] Length = ∼6 meters.[1]
Bonatitan reigi → Salitral de Santa Rosa locality, Río Negro Province.[7] Length = Extrapolated after relatives.
Kelumapusaura machi → Cerro Matadero locality, Río Negro Province.[8] 9 meters.[8]
Lamarqueavis australis → Cerro Tortugas locality, Río Negro Province.[9] Length = ∼House sparrow-sized.[9]
Lapampasaurus cholinoi → Islas Malvinas locality, La Pampa Province.[10] Length = ∼7 meters.[2]
Limenavis patagonica → Salitral Moreno locality, Río Negro Province.[11] Length = Extrapolated after relatives.
Menucocelsior arriagadai → Salitral Ojo de Agua locality, Río Negro Province.
Niebla antiqua → Cerro Matadero locality, Río Negro Province.[12] Length = 4.5 meters.[12]
Panamericansaurus schroederi → Bodega Familia Schroeder locality, Neuquén Province.[13] Length = 11 meters.[2]
Patagopelta cristata → Salitral Moreno locality, Río Negro Province.
Quilmesaurus curriei → Salitral Ojo de Agua locality, Río Negro Province.[14] Length = 5.3 meters.[12]
Rocasaurus muniozi → Salitral Moreno locality, Río Negro Province.[15] Length = Extrapolated after relatives.
Excluded taxa:
Willinakaqe salitralensis is considered a nomen dubium,[16] and its paratype has been reassigned to Bonapartesaurus rionegrensis.[6]
Laplatasaurus araukanicus has been restricted to its lectotype which hails from the Anacleto Formation.[17]
Abelisaurus comahuensis could either belong to the Allen or Anacleto formations.[12]
Pellegrinisaurus powelli could either belong to the Allen or Anacleto formations.[18][19]
References
↑ (2013). "The titanosaur sauropods from the late Campanian-early Maastrichtian Allen Formation of Salitral Moreno, Río Negro, Argentina". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 58 (2): 269–284. DOI:10.4202/app.2011.0055.
↑ a b c (2007) Dinosaurs: The Most Complete, Up-to-Date Encyclopedia for Dinosaur Lovers of All Ages, Random House ISBN: 9780375824197. Genus List for Holtz 2012 Weight Information
↑ (2008). "A bizarre Cretaceous theropod dinosaur from Patagonia and the evolution of Gondwanan dromaeosaurids". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 276 (1659): 1101–7. DOI:10.1098/rspb.2008.1554. ISSN 1471-2954.
↑ (2012). "A New Specimen of Austroraptor cabazai Novas, Pol, Canale, Porfiri and Calvo, 2008 (Dinosauria, Theropoda, Unenlagiidae) from the Latest Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) of Río Negro, Argentina". Ameghiniana 49 (4): 662–667. DOI:10.5710/AMGH.30.8.2012.574.
↑ a b Federico L. Agnolin (2012). "New alvarezsaurid (Dinosauria, Theropoda) from uppermost Cretaceous of north-western Patagonia with associated eggs". Cretaceous Research 35: 33–56. DOI:10.1016/j.cretres.2011.11.014.
↑ a b (2017). "Bonapartesaurus rionegrensis, a new hadrosaurine dinosaur from South America: implications for phylogenetic and biogeographic relations with North America". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 37 (2): 1–16. DOI:10.1080/02724634.2017.1289381.
↑ Salgado L., Gallina P.A. and Paulina Carabajal A. 2014. "Redescription of Bonatitan reigi (Sauropoda: Titanosauria), from the Campanian–Maastrichtian of the Río Negro Province (Argentina)". Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology 27(5): 525-548
↑ a b (2022). "A new hadrosaurid (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) from the Late Cretaceous of northern Patagonia and the radiation of South American hadrosaurids". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. DOI:10.1080/14772019.2021.2020917.
↑ a b (2010). "[https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/f6f4/c6eb05d224719916c0b20634f54dfeb37d3f.pdf An avian coracoid from the Upper
Cretaceous of Patagonia, Argentina]". Studia Geologica Salmanticensia 46 (2): 99-119. ISSN 0211-8327.
↑ Rodolfo A. Coria, Bernardo González Riga and Silvio Casadío (2012). "Un nuevo hadrosáurido (Dinosauria, Ornithopoda) de la Formación Allen, provincia de La Pampa, Argentina". Ameghiniana 49 (4): 552–572.
↑ Clarke and Chiappe, 2001. A new carinate bird from the Late Cretaceous of Patagonia (Argentina). American Museum Novitates. 3323, 1-23.
↑ a b c d (in English) Aranciaga Rolando, Mauro (2020). "A new medium-sized abelisaurid (Theropoda, Dinosauria) from the late cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Allen Formation of Northern Patagonia, Argentina". Journal of South American Earth Sciences: 102915. DOI:10.1016/j.jsames.2020.102915. ISSN 0895-9811.
↑ (2010). "Panamericansaurus schroederi gen. nov. sp. nov. Un nuevo Sauropoda (Titanosauridae-Aeolosaurini) de la Provincia del Neuquén, Cretácico Superior de Patagonia, Argentina". Brazilian Geographical Journal: Geosciences and Humanities research medium 1: 100–115.
↑ Coria, R.A. (2001) "A new theropod from the Late Cretaceous of Patagonia" in Tanke, Darren H., ed. Mesozoic Vertebrate Life, Life of the Past, Indiana University Press, pp. 3–9 ISBN: 978-0-253-33907-2.
↑ Salgado, L. and C. Azpilicueta. 2000. Un nuevo saltasaurino (Sauropoda, Titanosauridae) de la provincia de Río Negro (Formacíon Allen, Cretácico Superior), Patagonia, Argentina archive copy at the Wayback Machine. Ameghiniana 37 (3):259-264.
↑ (2016). "Revisiting the hadrosaurid diversity of the Allen Fm.: Re-evaluation of the taxonomic validity of Willinakaqe salitralensis (Ornithopoda, Hadrosauridae) from Salitral Moreno, Río Negro Province, Argentina". Ameghiniana 53 (2): 231–237. DOI:10.5710/AMGH.25.09.2015.2943.
↑ Pablo A. Gallina & Alejandro Otero (2015) Reassessment of Laplatasaurus araukanicus (SAUROPODA: TITANOSAURIA), from the Late Cretaceous of Patagonia, Argentina. Ameghiniana 52 (5):487–501. doi:10.5710/AMGH.08.06.2015.2911.
↑ (1996). "Pellegrinisaurus powelli nov. gen. et sp. (Sauropoda, Titanosauridae) from the Upper Cretaceous of Lago Pellegrini, Northwestern Patagonia, Argentina". Ameghiniana 33 (4): 355–365. ISSN 1851-8044.
↑ Heredia, S., & Salgado, L. (2014). Posición estratigráfica de los estratos supracretácicos portadores de dinosaurios en Lago Pellegrini, Patagonia septentrional, Argentina. Ameghiniana, 36(2), 229-234.](https://prod-images.planyourroadtrips.com/img/city-images/allen-ar--389774--678271/1-Allen_Formation_Fauna.png?w=1080&q=80&f=webp)
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Allen is a city in the province of Río Negro, Argentina. It has 26,083 inhabitants as per the 2001 census [INDEC]. It is located on the left-hand (northern) side of the Alto Valle of the Río Negro, near its beginning in the confluence of the Neuquén and Limay rivers, about 20 km (12 mi) west of General Roca and 35 kmRead more
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