Rocasaurus

General Roca lizard

• Roca · Place name (General Roca, Argentina) · the city of General Roca, Río Negro Province
• sauros · Greek · lizard

Rocasaurus is named after General Roca, the city in Río Negro Province, Argentina, near where the fossils were found, combined with the Greek word for "lizard". The type species, R. muniozi, honours Muñoz, a person associated with the discovery.

Named by

Salgado and Azpilicueta

Year named

2000

Period

Late Cretaceous

Stages

Campanian – Maastrichtian

Found in

Allen Formation, Río Negro Province, Argentina

A small titanosaurian sauropod (saltasaurine saltasaurid) from Patagonia. Type species is Rocasaurus muniozi. The exact stage range and the details of the species honouree are given from memory and should be checked against the original description.