Demandasaurus

Demanda lizard

• Demanda · Spanish (place name) · Sierra de la Demanda, a mountain range in Spain
• sauros · Greek · lizard

Demandasaurus is named after the Sierra de la Demanda, the mountain region in northern Spain (Burgos Province) where its fossils were found. This is combined with the Greek word for lizard. The only species, D. darwini, honours Charles Darwin.

Named by

Torcida Fernández-Baldor et al.

Year named

2011

Period

Early Cretaceous

Stages

Barremian – Aptian

Found in

Castrillo de la Reina Formation, Burgos Province, Spain

A rebbachisaurid sauropod, a group of diplodocoid sauropods. The exact age within the Barremian–Aptian interval is approximate.