Name: Vouivria.
Phonetic: Vou-e-vre-ah.
Named By: P. D. Mannion, R. Allain
& O. Moine - 2017.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia, Dinosauria,
Saurischia, Sauropoda, Brachiosauridae.
Species: V. damparisensis
(type).
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Roughly estimated to be about 15 meters
long.
Known locations: France.
Time period: Oxfordian of the Jurassic.
Fossil representation: Partial post cranial skeleton.
Fossils
of Vouivria were originally attributed to the
dinosaur
Bothriospondylus,
however study of the fossils combined with the
dubious status of Bothriospondylus meant that by
the 1980s the
fossils that these fossils were no longer thought to be
Bothriospondylus. In 2017 the fossils were
used to describe
their own genus, Vouivria. Vouivria
was a
medium sized
brachiosaurid sauropod
dinosaur that lived in Europe during the late
Jurassic.
Further reading
- The earliest known
titanosauriform sauropod dinosaur and the evolution of
Brachiosauridae. - PeerJ 5:e3217:1-82. - P. D. Mannion,
R. Allain & O. Moine - 2017.