Augustia

Augusta's [lizard] / of Augusta

• Augusta · Latin · Augusta (a place name in Spain, referring to the Roman name for the region near the discovery site)

Augustia was named in 1960 by José Royo y Gómez in reference to the Roman place name "Augusta," associated with the region of Valencia (Augustobriga or the broader Augustan province) in Spain where the fossil material was found. The name honours the Latin/Roman heritage of the locality. It was applied to a sauropod dinosaur known from fragmentary remains.

Named by

Royo y Gómez

Year named

1960

Period

Early Cretaceous

Stage

Barremian

Found in

Morella, Valencia Province, Spain

Augustia is a preoccupied name: the genus name had already been used for a beetle (an insect genus). As a result, it was later replaced by the new name Demandasaurus by Torcida Fernández-Baldor et al. (2011), which is now the accepted genus for this rebbachisaurid sauropod. The original material is fragmentary, and its status has been debated. It is a dinosaur (sauropod), not a non-dinosaurian reptile.