Lourinhasaurus

Lourinhã lizard

• Lourinhã · Portuguese (place name) · Lourinhã, the town and region in Portugal where it was found
• sauros · Greek · lizard

The name combines Lourinhã, the town and region in western Portugal where the fossils were found, with the Greek word for lizard. It means "Lourinhã lizard". The material was first described in 1957 as a species of Apatosaurus. It was given its own genus in 1998.

Named by

Dantas et al.

Year named

1998

Period

Late Jurassic

Found in

Lourinhã Formation, Portugal

A sauropod. The type species is Lourinhasaurus alenquerensis, first described as Apatosaurus alenquerensis. Its exact position within Sauropoda has been debated. Its stratigraphic age is given only approximately here.