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| Scientific name | Tapuiasaurus macedoni |
| Home era | Cretaceous |
| Creature type | Sauropod Dinosaur |
| Deaths caused | 1 |
| Appearances | Episode 1.10 |
Tapuiasaurus ia a South American Cretaceous sauropod dinosaur
In Primeval Adventure Series[]
Tapuiasaurus was one of the many creatures that came through a satellite anomaly that Andy opened. The team had to go all the way to Galashiels in Scotland, where they tried to stop a herd of Tapuiasaurus along with all the other creatures they had to stop. (Episode 1.10)
Facts[]
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.