Piveteausaurus

Piveteau's lizard

• Piveteau · French (surname) · Jean Piveteau, French palaeontologist
• sauros · Greek · lizard

Piveteausaurus honours Jean Piveteau, a French vertebrate palaeontologist who studied the original braincase material. The name combines his surname with the Greek word for lizard. The species was first described as Eustreptospondylus divesensis and was later moved to its own genus.

Named by

Taquet and Welles

Year named

1977

Period

Middle Jurassic

Stage

Callovian

Found in

Dives-sur-Mer / Normandy (Calvados), France

A large carnivorous theropod known from a partial skull/braincase. The type species is Piveteausaurus divesensis, originally named Eustreptospondylus divesensis by Walker in 1964. Its exact position within Tetanurae is uncertain because the material is limited.