Which dinosaur was named after the province where Bartolome Saravi was General Minister in 1847?
La Rioja Province, Argentina La Rioja (] ) is one of the provinces of Argentina and is located in the west of the country. Neighboring provinces are from the north clockwise Catamarca, Córdoba, San Luis and San Juan. The dinosaur "Riojasaurus" is named after the province.
Yaguarasaurus Yaguarasaurus is an extinct genus of mosasauroid from the Late Cretaceous (Turonian) period of Colombia, South America. The remains discovered (an articulated skull, some vertebrae and ribs) were defined as a new genus and species of mosasaurid, "Yaguarasaurus columbianus", by the Colombian paleontologist María Páramo, former director of the Museo de Geología José Royo y Gómez of INGEOMINAS in Bogotá. The first fossils remains of this animal suggested a cranial length of 47 cm and a total length of 5 m ; an additional skull that measures 87 cm long implies a larger size.