Which dinosaur was named after the province where Bartolome Saravi was General Minister in 1847?
Bartolomé Saravi Bartolomé Saraví Melo (1797-1862) was an Argentine army officer and politician, hero of the Argentine War of Independence. He served as General Minister of La Rioja Province, Argentina in 1847.
Ligabuesaurus Ligabuesaurus is a genus of dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous (Aptian to Albian stage, 100 to 125 million years ago). It was a basal titanosaurid sauropod which lived in what is now Argentina. The type species, "Ligabuesaurus leanzai", was described by Jose Bonaparte, Gonzalez Riga, and Sebastián Apesteguía in 2006, based on a partial skeleton. The specific name, "leanzai", is dedicated to the geologist Dr. Héctor A. Leanza, who discovered the skeleton.