Tapuiasaurus

Tapuiasaurus Temporal range: Early Cretaceous, 120Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Skull of the type specimen
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Clade:	Dinosauria
Suborder:	†Sauropodomorpha
Clade:	†Titanosauria
Clade:	†Lithostrotia
Family:	†Nemegtosauridae
Genus:	†Tapuiasaurus Zaher et al., 2011
Species:	† T. macedoi
Binomial name
Tapuiasaurus macedoi Zaher et al., 2011

Restoration

Vertebra

The view of the fossils when discovered

Location of where the fossils were found

Tapuiasaurus (meaning "Tapuia lizard") is a genus of herbivorous sauropod dinosaur. It is a nemegtosaurid titanosaur which lived during the Lower Cretaceous period (Aptian age) in what is now Brazil. Its fossils, including a partial skeleton with a nearly complete skull, have been recovered from the Quiricó Formation (Sanfranciscana Basin) at Minas Gerais, eastern Brazil. This genus was named by Hussam Zaher, Diego Pol, Alberto B. Carvalho, Paulo M. Nascimento, Claudio Riccomini, Peter Larson, Rubén Juarez-Valieri, Ricardo Pires-Domingues, Nelson Jorge da Silva Jr. and Diógenes de Almeida Campos in 2011, and the type species is Tapuiasaurus macedoi.^[1]

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