| Yamanasaurus | |
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| Skeletal reconstruction | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Sauropsida |
| Superorder: | Dinosauria |
| Order: | Saurischia |
| Suborder: | †Sauropodomorpha |
| Infraorder: | †Sauropoda |
| Family: | †Saltasauridae |
| Genus: | †Yamanasaurus Apesteguía et al., 2019 |
| Binomial name | |
| †Yamanasaurus lojaensis Apesteguía et al., 2019 | |
Yamanasaurus (meaning "Yamana lizard") is a genus of saltasaurine titanosaur dinosaur from the Río Playas Formation from Ecuador. The type and only species, Yamanasaurus lojaensis, was officially described in 2019. It is the first non-avian dinosaur described from Ecuador.
The holotype, consisting of fragments of a humerus, ulna, tibia, two sacral vertebrae and a single caudal, were discovered in 2017.
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Reconstruction, based off Saltasaurus.