Species: astibiae SANZ, POWELL, LE LOEUFF, MARTINEZ & SUBERBIOLA, 1999
Etymology: In honor of Dr. Humberto Astibia, leader of the research at the outcrop in Lano.
= Genus nova, PEREDA-SUBERBIOLA, BARDET, CORRAL, ASTIBIA & FLOQUET, 1993
= Lirainosaurus astibia DIAZ, PEREDA-SUBERBIOLA & SANZ, 2013 (sic)

Holotype: MCNA 7458

Locality: Lano 1A, 1B and L2 levels, Trevino County, about 20 km SE of the City of Vitoria, Basque-Cantabric Basin, Iberian Peninsula, Spain.

Horizon: Sobrepena Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Uppermost Campanian-Lowermost Maastrichtian Stage, Upper Senonian subepoch, Upper Upper Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material: Anterior caudal vertebra.

Paratypes:

MCNA 7439: Fragment of skull.

MCNA 7440/7441: Isolated teeth of different sizes.

MCNA7442-7450: 9 dorsal vertebrae.

MCNA 7451-7457, 1812: 7 caudals.

MCNA 7459: Scapula.

MCNA 7460: Coracoid.

MCNA7461: Sternal plate.

MCNA 7462-7465: 4 humeri.

MCNA 7466: Fragment of ilium.

MCNA 7467: A fragment of pubis.

MCNA7468, 3160, 7470: 3 femora.

MCNA 7471: Tibia.

MCNA 7472: Fibula.

MCNA 7473, 7474: 2 osteoderms.

Referred material:

RODRIGUEZ, 2005

Vertebral and apendicular elements.

DIAZ, PEREDA-SUBERBIOLA & SANZ, 2013

MCNA 13913: An incomplete braincase.

MCNA 1854, 12402, 13866013878, 13914, 14231-14239: Teeth.

MCNA 14429: Cervical centrum.

MCNA 1816, 1818, 1883, 3159, 8551, 8604, 8608, 13852, 13856, 13858, 14430-14424: 16 dorsal vertebrae.

MCNA 1882, 2207, 2208, 2211, 7458, 8605-8607, 9647, 13388, 13851, 13853, 13854, 13857, 14435-14455: 35 caudal vertebrtae.

MCAN 14456-14459: 4 rib reamins.

MCNA 14460: A hemal arch.

MCNA 13855, 14461, 14462: 3 scapulae.

MCAN 1846, 3158: 2 coracoids.

MCAN 14463: Humerus.

MCAN 3157: Ulna.

MCAN 8609, 13861, 14464: 3 ilia.

MCAN 1817, 14465-68: 5 femora.

MCAN 2203, 13860, 14469: 4 tibiae.

MCNA 9410, 14471: 2 fibulae.

MCNA 14474: Metatarsal III.

 

= Lirainosaurus cf. astibiae DIEZ DIAZ, PEREDA-SUBERBIOLA, & COMPANY, 2015

Locality: Chera area, Valencia Province, Iberian Peninsula, Spain.

Horizon:  Sierra Perenchiza Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Late Campanian-early Maastrichtian Stage, Upper Senonian Subepoch, Upper Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

MGUV 17320: Fragmetnary dorsal centrum wth the baes of its neural arch.

MGUV 17169: Proximal -anterior caudal vertebra missing most of its neural arch.

MGUV 17194, 17235, 17819: Femora.