Triunfosaurus

Triunfo lizard

• Triunfo · Portuguese (place name) · Triunfo, the municipality in Paraíba, Brazil (literally 'triumph')
• sauros · Greek · lizard

The name combines Triunfo, the municipality in Paraíba state, northeastern Brazil, near where the fossils were found, with the Greek word for lizard. "Triunfo" is Portuguese for "triumph". The type species, T. leonardii, honours the Italian paleoichnologist Giuseppe Leonardi.

Named by

Carvalho et al.

Year named

2017

Period

Early Cretaceous

Found in

Rio Piranhas Formation, Paraíba, northeastern Brazil

A sauropod dinosaur, described as a basal titanosaur. I'm not certain of its exact geologic stages, so those fields are left blank.