a type of brachiosaurid sauropod dinosaur from the Late Jurassic of Spain.
Pronunciation: GAL-vay-SOR-us
Meaning: Galve lizard
Author/s: Barco
et al. (
2005)
Synonyms: Galveosaurus (Sánchez-Hernández, 2005)
First Discovery: Teruel, Spain
Acta Ordinal: #579
Galvesaurus herreroi
(Herrero's Galve Lizard)Etymology
Galvesaurus is derived from "Galve" (the Spanish village in which it was found) and the Greek "sauros" (lizard).
The
species epithet,
herreroi, honours its discoverer José María Herrero.
Discovery
The remains of
Galvesaurus were discovered in the Villar del Arzobispo Formation at Cuesta Lonsal-1 in the village of Galve, Teruel, Spain, by José María Herrero during the 1980s.
The
holotype (CLH-16, housed in the Museo Paleontológico de Galve) is a back vertebra that was first figured in a paper by Pérez Oñate
et al. way back in 1994.
Several paratypes have also been assigned:
three neck vertebrae (CL-2,
CL[CBC]15-4 and MPZ 2003/884), a neck rib
(GAL00/CL/60), two spines from back vertebrae (CL-JMH and
GAL00/CL/62), a block of hip vertebrae (GAL00/CL/90), one rib, plus two rib fragments
(GAL01/CL/102, plus CLH-5, CLH-22), six tail vertebrae (CLH-8, CLH-15, GAL00/CL/35,
CL[CBC]-31 [two fused], and CLH unnumbered), an arch from a tail vertebra (unlabeled, fused to CL[CBC]-31), a shoulder blade (CLH-14), two upper arm bones (CLH-1 right, and CLH-4 left), one pelvic bone (CLH-6), a possible radius fragment from a lower arm (CLH-21), one metatarsal (CLH-15 CBC) and a probable sternal plate (CLH-7).
• Pérez Oñate J, Cuenca-Bescós G and Sanz JL (1994). Page 159-162 in Comunicaciones de las X Jornadas de Paleontología, Madrid.
• Barco JI, Canudo JI, Cuenca-Bescós G and Ruíz-Omeñaca JI (2005) "
Un nuevo dinosaurio saurópodo, Galvesaurus herreroi gen. nov., sp. nov., del tránsito Jurásico-Cretácico en Galve (Teruel, NE de España)".
Naturaleza Aragonesa, 15: 4-17.
• Sánchez-Hernández B (2005) "
Galveosaurus herreroi, a new sauropod dinosaur from Villar del Arzobispo Formation (Tithonian-Berriasian) of Spain".
Zootaxa, 1034: 1-20. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1034.1.1.
• Sánchez-Hernández B (2006) "
The new sauropod from Spain: Galveosaurus or Galvesaurus?".
Zootaxa, 1201: 63-68. DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.1201.1.3.
• Canudo JI (2006) "
Galvesaurus-
Galveosaurus".
Archived message to the DML.
• Barco JI and Canudo JI (2012) "
On the phylogenetic position of the sauropod Galvesaurus, and other reflections".
V Jornadas Internacionales sobre Paleontología de Dinosaurios y su entorno.
• Mocho P, Royo-Torres R and Ortega F (2017) "New data of the Portuguese brachiosaurid
Lusotitan atalaiensis (Sobral Formation, Upper Jurassic)".
Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology, 29(6): 789–817. DOI: 10.1080/08912963.2016.1247447.
• Pérez-Pueyo M, Moreno-Azanza M, Barco JL and Canudo JI (2019) "New contributions to the phylogenetic position of the sauropod
Galvesaurus herreroi from the late Kimmeridgian-early Tithonian (Jurassic) of Teruel (Spain)".
Boletín Geológico y Minero, 130(3): 375-392. DOI: 10.21701/bolgeomin.130.3.001.
• Jurado C, Bauluz B, Castanera D and Canudo JI (2020) "
Paleohistología y permineralización de dos saurópodos del ciclo Jurásico en la subcuenca de Galve (Teruel, España)" [Paleohistology and permineralization of two sauropods of the Jurassic cycle in the Galve subbasin (Teruel, Spain)].
Revista de la Sociedad Geológica de España, 33(2): 3-16. (in Spanish)
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