Genus: Bicharracosaurus REUTTER, CARBALLIDO, WNDHOLZ, POL & RAUHUT, 2026
Etymology: Spanish, bicharraco, "big animal, and used by Dionide Mesa to refer to big size of the fossil and Greek, saurus(sauros), "lizard."
Species: dionidei REUTTER, CARBALLIDO, WNDHOLZ, POL & RAUHUT, 2026
Etymology: In honor of
Dionide Mesa, who found this specimen and other dnosarus bones on his farm.
Holotype: MPEF-PV 1730
Locality: Dionide 3 locality, approximately 24 km north of Cerro Condor adn east of the Chubut River, Chubut Province, Patagonia, Argentina.
Horizon: Higher parts of the Canadon Calcareo Formation.
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Oxfordian-Kimmeridgian Stage, Malm Epoch, Late Jurassic.
Material:
Breakdown as follows:
MPEF-PV 1730/1-7: & middle to posterior cervical vertebrae.
MPEF-PV 1730/7-12: Compte dorsal column composed of 10 vertebrae.
MPEF-PV 1730/13: Sacrum composed of 5 articualded vertebralc enttra with parts of the sacricostal yoke and fused to the preacetabular porcess of the right ilium.
MPEF-PV 1730/14-22: 9 disarticulated caudal vertbrae.
MPEF-PV 1730/23-26: 4 disarticulated adn fragmentary cervical ribs.
MPEF-PV 1730/29-38: 10 disarticualted dorsal ribs.
MPEF-PV 1730/29, 35: Histological thin-section of 2 dorsal ribs.
MPEF-PV 1730.28: Fragmentary chevron.
MPEF-PV unnumbered: Several undiagnostic sacra and ribs.
Referred material:
MPEF-PV 1724: Posterior doral vertebral centra.