Named By: | Coria & Salgado in 1996 |
Time Period: | 85 Ma |
Location: | Argentina |
Size: | 90 centimetres long |
Diet: | unavailable |
Fossil(s): | Several individuals |
Classification: | | Chordata | Reptilia | Dinosauria | Ornithischia | Cerapoda | Ornithopoda | |
Gasparinisaura (meaning "Gasparini's lizard") is a genus of herbivorous ornithopod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous.
The first fossils of Gasparinisaura were in 1992 found in Argentina, near Cinco Saltos in Rio Negro Province. The type species, Gasparinisaura cincosaltensis, was named and described in 1996 by Rodolfo Coria and Leonardo Salgado. The generic name honours Argentine palaeontologist Zulma Brandoni de Gasparini. The specific name refers to Cinco Saltos.