Bravasaurus
Name:
Bravasaurus
(Laguna Brava lizard).
Phonetic: Bra-vah-sor-us.
Named By: E. Martín Hechenleitner, Léa
Leuzinger, Agustín G. Martinelli, Sebastián Rocher, Lucas E.
Fiorelli, Jeremías R. A. Taborda & Leonardo Salgado
- 2020.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia, Dinosauria,
Saurischia, Sauropoda, Titanosauria, Lithostrotia,
Aeolosaurini.
Species: B. arreirosorum
(type).
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Holotype roughly about 7 meters long.
Known locations: Argentina - Ciénaga del Río
Huaco Formation.
Time period: Late Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Partial post cranial skeleton.
Bravasaurus
is a genus of titanosaurian
dinosaur that lived in South America
during the late Cretaceous. While many of the South American
titanosaurs such as Argentinosaurus
were positive giants, Bravasaurus
seems to have been much smaller than most.
Bravasaurus
was named alongside the genus Punatitan
in the same paper in 2020.
Further reading
- Two Late Cretaceous sauropods reveal titanosaurian dispersal across
South America. - Communications Biology. 3 (1). - E.
Martín Hechenleitner, Léa Leuzinger, Agustín G. Martinelli,
Sebastián Rocher, Lucas E. Fiorelli, Jeremías R. A. Taborda
& Leonardo Salgado - 2020.
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