Drusilasaura

Drusila's lizard

• Drusila · Personal name · a personal name (Drusila), honouring a person connected with the discovery
• saura · Greek · lizard

The name combines "Drusila", a personal name honouring a person associated with the find, with the Greek "saura", meaning "lizard". It was given to a large long-necked sauropod (a titanosaur) from Patagonia. I am not certain who Drusila was, so I have left that detail out.

Named by

Navarrete, Casal and Martínez

Year named

2011

Period

Late Cretaceous

Found in

Bajo Barreal Formation, Chubut Province, Patagonia, Argentina

A lithostrotian titanosaurian sauropod. The type species is Drusilasaura deseadensis. The exact stage range is not given here because I am unsure of it.