Vouivria

Vouivre (winged serpent or dragon) of French folklore

• vouivre · French (regional folklore) · winged serpent or dragon
• -ia · Latin · Latinised noun ending

The name comes from "vouivre", a winged serpent or dragon in the folklore of the Franche-Comté region of eastern France. The fossils were found in that region, near Damparis. The "vouivre" word itself traces back to the Latin "vipera", meaning viper. The type species is Vouivria damparisensis, named for Damparis.

Named by

Mannion, Allain and Moine

Year named

2017

Period

Late Jurassic

Stage

Oxfordian

Found in

Near Damparis, Jura, eastern France

A sauropod dinosaur, described as one of the earliest known titanosauriforms (a relative of brachiosaurids). Its exact stage and the pronunciation given here are my best recollection and may be imprecise.