Tornieria

Tornier's (animal)

• Tornier · German surname · Gustav Tornier, German zoologist
• -ia · Latin · Latinised suffix for a name

Tornieria honours Gustav Tornier, a German herpetologist who worked at the Berlin Natural History Museum. Sternfeld coined the name in 1911 as a replacement because the original name, Gigantosaurus (Fraas, 1908), was already used for another animal. The name has no anatomical meaning. It simply commemorates Tornier.

Named by

Sternfeld

Year named

1911

Period

Late Jurassic

Stages

Kimmeridgian – Tithonian

Found in

Tendaguru Formation, Lindi Region, Tanzania

A sauropod, generally regarded as a diplodocid. It was a replacement name for the preoccupied Gigantosaurus Fraas, 1908. The type species is Tornieria africana, originally Gigantosaurus africanus. Stage ranges are approximate.