Limaysaurus

Limay lizard

• Limay · Spanish (place name) · Río Limay, a river in Argentina
• sauros · Greek · lizard

Limaysaurus is named after the Río Limay (Limay River) in northern Patagonia, Argentina, near where its fossils were found, combined with the Greek word for "lizard". It was first described in 1995 as a species of Rebbachisaurus and was moved to its own genus in 2004.

Named by

Salgado, Carvalho and Garrido

Year named

2004

Period

Late Cretaceous

Stage

Cenomanian

Found in

Candeleros Formation, Neuquén Province, Argentina

A rebbachisaurid diplodocoid sauropod. The type species, Limaysaurus tessonei, was originally named Rebbachisaurus tessonei by Calvo and Salgado in 1995.