Nambalia

from Nambal (a village in India)

• Nambal · Place name (Telugu/Indian village) · village near the fossil locality in Andhra Pradesh, India
• -ia · Latin · Latinised suffix denoting 'place of'

Nambalia is named after the village of Nambal, near where its fossils were found in central India. The type species, Nambalia roychowdhurii, honours the Indian paleontologist Tapan Roy-Chowdhury. It is a basal sauropodomorph, an early relative of the long-necked sauropods.

Named by

Novas et al.

Year named

2011

Period

Late Triassic

Found in

Maleri Formation, Andhra Pradesh (Pranhita–Godavari Basin), India

Early sauropodomorph known from fragmentary remains. Its exact relationships are debated. Details of the etymology (village name) are from memory and worth checking against the original paper.