Padillasaurus

Padilla's lizard

• Padilla · Spanish (surname) · honours a person surnamed Padilla
• sauros · Greek · lizard

Padillasaurus combines a personal surname, Padilla, with the Greek word for lizard, "sauros". It was named for a person who was honoured in the name. The only known species, Padillasaurus leivaensis, is named after the Villa de Leyva area of Colombia, where the fossils were found. It is a sauropod, a long-necked plant-eating dinosaur.

Named by

Carballido et al.

Year named

2015

Period

Early Cretaceous

Stages

Barremian – Aptian

Found in

Paja Formation, near Villa de Leyva, Boyacá, Colombia

A basal titanosauriform sauropod, often placed near the base of Brachiosauridae or close to it. I am not certain who Padilla was, so that detail is left out. The stage range is approximate.