Tamarro

Named for the 'tamarro', a mythical creature of Catalan folklore

• tamarro · Catalan · a monstrous creature from Pyrenean (Pallars) folklore

Tamarro is named after a creature from the folklore of the Pallars region of Catalonia, where the fossils were found. In local legend the tamarro is a scary, monstrous being. The type species is Tamarro insignis, and its species name means "remarkable" or "notable" in Latin.

Named by

Vila et al.

Year named

2022

Period

Late Cretaceous

Stage

Maastrichtian

Found in

Tremp Basin, Catalonia, Spain

Tamarro is a small titanosaurian sauropod, a lithostrotian. It is known from the Tremp Basin in the southern Pyrenees. I am less certain of the exact formation, so I have left it out.