Tangvayosaurus

Tang Vay lizard

• Tangvay · Lao (place name) · Tang Vay, a village near the fossil site in Laos
• sauros · Greek · lizard

Tangvayosaurus is named after Tang Vay, the village near the site in Laos where the fossils were found, combined with the Greek word for lizard. The name therefore means "Tang Vay lizard". It is a sauropod, a long-necked plant-eating dinosaur, described from partial skeletons. The type species, T. hoffeti, honours the geologist Jean-Michel Hoffet.

Named by

Allain et al.

Year named

1999

Period

Early Cretaceous

Stages

Aptian – Albian

Found in

Grès supérieurs Formation, Savannakhet Province, Laos

Valid genus of titanosauriform sauropod; type species Tangvayosaurus hoffeti. Stage range is approximate (Aptian–Albian) and the age of the formation is not tightly constrained.