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Lessemsaurus

Sauropodomorph dinosaur genus from Late Triassic Argentina

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 28, 2025
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Lessemsaurus is an extinct genus of sauropodiform dinosaur that lived in the Norian-aged Los Colorados Formation of what is now Argentina.

Editorial summary

“Lessemsaurus” enters the record as sauropodomorph dinosaur genus from Late Triassic Argentina. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Lessemsaurus, Sauropodomorph and dinosaur can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical orientation to terminology and classification, particularly when read beside dated observations, specimens or technical literature. The current 21-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Lessemsaurus, Sauropodomorph and dinosaur.
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Why this record matters

“Lessemsaurus” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Lessemsaurus, Sauropodomorph and dinosaur provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Stable identifiers, scientific names and standards terminology offer the best bridge between this overview and specialist evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 28, 2025.

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This entry incorporates text from “Lessemsaurus” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.