Narindasaurus

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Narindasaurus
Temporal range: Middle Jurassic,
~168–165  Ma
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Lapparentosaurus madagascariensis left pubis.jpg
Left pubis (MNHN MAJ 430)
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Saurischia
Clade: Sauropodomorpha
Clade: Sauropoda
Clade: Turiasauria
Genus: Narindasaurus
Royo-Torres et al., 2020
Species:
N. thevenini
Binomial name
Narindasaurus thevenini
Royo-Torres et al., 2020

Narindasaurus (meaning "lizard of Narinda Bay") is a genus of turiasaurian sauropod dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic Isalo III Formation of Madagascar. [1] [2] The type species, N. thevenini was formally described by Royo-Torres et al. in 2020. [3] The holotype, which consists of one specimen, is currently stored at the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle and has been since 1906 or 1907. [2]

Discovery and naming

The holotype was discovered in the Isalo III Formation before 1894 by Joseph Thomas Last, [4] and were briefly noted on by Paul Lemoine in 1906. [1] Armand Thevenin (1861-1942) was the first to diagnose Narindasaurus. In 1907, he placed it within the now obsolete species " Bothriospondylus madagascariensis ", [2] which is now known as Lapparentosaurus . [5] It was briefly mentioned in 1972 [6] and it was reevaluated in 2008 and 2010 as both a distinct taxon and a non-neosauropod eusauropod. [7] [8] It was classified as a turiasaur in 2015. [9] The species Narindasaurus thevenini was formally named in 2020. [3]

The holotype consists of a partial skeleton composed by a right maxillary or premaxillary tooth (MNHN MAJ 423), an anterior caudal vertebra (MNHN MAJ 424), a posterior caudal vertebra (MNHN MAJ 426), a middle-anterior chevron (MNHN MAJ 425), a right ulna (MNHN MAJ 427), a right tibia (MNHN MAJ 428), a right fibula with a distal chevron attached (MNHN MAJ 429) and a left pubis (MNHN MAJ 430). [2] [3]

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