Tapuiasaurus
Name:
Tapuiasaurus
(Tapuia lizard).
Phonetic: Ta-pu-e-ah-sore-us.
Named By: Hussam Zaher, Diego Pol, Alberto B.
Carvalho, Paulo M. Nascimento, Claudio Riccomini, Peter
Larson, Rub�n Juarez-Valieri, Ricardo Pires-Domingues, Nelson
Jorge da Silva Jr. & Di�genes de Almeida Campos - 2011.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia, Dinosauria,
Saurischia, Sauropoda, Titanosauria.
Species: T. macedoi (type).
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Roughly estimated at about 13 meters
long.
Known locations: Brazil - Quiric� Formation.
Time period: Aptian of the Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Almost complete skull and
some partial postcranial skeletal remains.
One of the smaller South American titanosaurs, Tapuiasaurus is also one of the few titanosaur genera where skull fossils are also known.
Further reading
- A Complete Skull of an Early Cretaceous Sauropod and the Evolution
of Advanced Titanosaurians. - PLoS ONE 6 (2): e16663. -
Hussam Zaher, Diego Pol, Alberto B. Carvalho, Paulo M.
Nascimento, Claudio Riccomini, Peter Larson, Rub�n
Juarez-Valieri, Ricardo Pires-Domingues, Nelson Jorge da Silva Jr.
& Di�genes de Almeida Campos - 2011.
- The skull of the titanosaur Tapuiasaurus macedoi
(Dinosauria:
Sauropoda), a basal titanosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of Brazil. -
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. - J. A. Wilson, D. Pol, A.
B. Carvalho & H. Zaher - 2016.
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