Tastavinsaurus
TASS-tah-vin-SORE-us /ˌtæstəvɪnˈsɔːrəs/
Accepted genus
Tastavins lizard
- Tastavins · Spanish/Catalan place name · Tastavins river/valley, Teruel, Spain
- sauros · Greek · lizard
The name combines the Tastavins, a river and valley near Peñarroya de Tastavins in Teruel, Spain where the fossils were found, with the Greek word for lizard. It means "lizard from the Tastavins". The only species, T. sanzi, honours the Spanish palaeontologist José Luis Sanz.
- Named by
- Canudo, Royo-Torres and Cuenca-Bescós
- Year named
- 2008
- Period
- Early Cretaceous
- Stage
- Aptian
- Found in
- Xert Formation, near Peñarroya de Tastavins, Teruel Province, Spain
A sauropod, generally regarded as a basal titanosauriform (somphospondyl). The type species is Tastavinsaurus sanzi.