Pellegrinisaurus
peh-leh-GREE-nee-SORE-us /ˌpɛlɛˌɡriːniˈsɔːrəs/
Accepted genus
Pellegrini lizard
- Pellegrini · Spanish (place name) · Lake Pellegrini, Río Negro, Argentina
- sauros · Greek · lizard
Pellegrinisaurus is named after Lake Pellegrini (Lago Pellegrini) in Río Negro Province, Argentina, near where the fossils were discovered. The Greek "sauros" (lizard) is added to the place name. The type species, P. powelli, honours the Argentine paleontologist José Powell.
- Named by
- Salgado
- Year named
- 1996
- Period
- Late Cretaceous
- Stage
- Campanian
- Found in
- Anacleto Formation, near Lake Pellegrini, Río Negro Province, Argentina
A titanosaurian sauropod known from fragmentary remains (including a partial skeleton with a sacrum and limb bones). The exact stage of the Anacleto Formation is debated; Campanian is given here.