GALVESAURUS
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
Discovery Chart Position: #562
Galvesaurus herreroi
(Herrero's Galve Lizard)Etymology
Galvesaurus is derived from "Galve" (for the region of Spain 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.
Estimations
Timeline:
Era: Mesozoic
Epoch: Late Cretaceous
Stage: Kimmeridgian-Tithonian
Age range: 150-146 mya
Stats:
Est. max. length: ?
Est. max. hip height: ?
Est. max. weight: ?
Diet: Herbivore
Galvesaurus
herreroi
Galvesaurus
herreroi
References
• Pérez Oñate J, Cuenca-Bescós G and SANZ JL (1994). Page 159-162 in Comunicaciones de las X Jornadas de Paleontología, Madrid.
• 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.
• 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 (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.
• 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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