Laplatasaurus
lah-PLAH-tah-SORE-us /lɑˌplɑtəˈsɔːrəs/
Nomen dubium
La Plata lizard
- La Plata · Spanish (place name) · La Plata, Argentina (city and museum)
- sauros · Greek · lizard
The name combines "La Plata" with the Greek word for lizard. It refers to La Plata, Argentina, and to the La Plata Museum, which holds the material. Friedrich von Huene named it for the fossils that came from Argentina.
- Named by
- von Huene
- Year named
- 1929
- Period
- Late Cretaceous
- Found in
- Argentina (type species L. araukanicus); material has also been referred from Uruguay
Laplatasaurus is a titanosaurian sauropod. Its type material is fragmentary, so many researchers treat the name as a nomen dubium. The publication date is uncertain, and the name may first have appeared in 1927. The exact stages are not given here because I am not sure of them.