Volkheimeria

Volkheimeria
Temporal range: Early Jurassic (middle Toarcian), ~
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Saurischia
Clade: †Sauropodomorpha
Clade: †Sauropoda
Genus: †Volkheimeria
Bonaparte, 1979
Species:
†V. chubutensis
Binomial name
†Volkheimeria chubutensis
Bonaparte, 1979

Volkheimeria is an extinct genus of sauropod dinosaurs that lived in what is now Argentina during the Early Jurassic, about 179–178 million years ago. Its type and only species is Volkheimeria chubutensis.

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