Tapuiasaurus (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Tapuiasaurus (meaning "Tapuia lizard") is a genus of herbivorous sauropod dinosaur. It is a 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 Quiric 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, Rub n Juarez-Valieri, Ricardo Pires-Domingues, Nelson Jorge da Silva Jr. and Di genes de Almeida Campos in 2011, and the type species is Tapuiasaurus macedoi.