Laplatasaurus

Laplatasaurus (meaning "La Plata lizard", named for La Plata, Argentina) is a genus of titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur that lived during the Late Cretaceous in South America, with the holotype and only known specimen found in the Anacleto Formation.

[3] This last species is today commonly referred to the original Titanosaurus.Huene based Laplatasaurus on fragmentary material found in three locations in Argentina, in strata of the Anacleto Formation,[4] dating from the Campanian faunal stage.

Huene never assigned a holotype, but in 1979 José Fernando Bonaparte chose MLP 26-306 as the lectotype, a specimen consisting of a tibia and a fibula that perhaps originate from different individuals.

Osteoderms forming an armored plating on the back, have been referred to Laplatasaurus but the association is uncertain.

A Megaloolithus egg found in the Anacleto Formation in Auca Mahuevo, Argentina[5] that was once assigned to Titanosaurus may have instead been laid by Laplatasaurus.

Megaloolithus egg from the Anacleto Formation that was previously assigned to Titanosaurus that may have instead been laid by Laplatasaurus