Vouivria is a genus of herbivorous sauropod dinosaur, belonging to the Brachiosauridae, that lived in the area of present France during the Late Jurassic. The type and only known species is Vouivria damparisensis. It is based on a specimen once commonly referred to as the '"French Bothriospondylus"' in the scientific literature, as the specimen was once identified as Bothriospondylus madagascariensis, a species known from the Middle Jurassic of Madagascar.
Vouivria is a genus of herbivorous sauropod dinosaur, belonging to the Brachiosauridae, that lived in the area of present France during the Late Jurassic. The type and only known species is Vouivria damparisensis. It is based on a specimen once commonly referred to as the '"French Bothriospondylus"' in the scientific literature, as the specimen was once identified as Bothriospondylus madagascariensis, a species known from the Middle Jurassic of Madagascar.
==History== thumb|left|Original excavation plan In 1926, the Solvay company began to exploit a chalkstone quarry at Belvoye, near Damparis in Franche-Comté. In April 1934, workers noticed the presence of large fossil bones in the southeastern face of the quarry. A scapula was shown to foreman Koehret who notified the company engineers Verhas and Chardin. They advised director Étienne Haerens to immediately excavate the marl lens containing the remains. Paleontologists Jean Piveteau and Raymond Ciry were asked to supervise this effort. The excavation started in May and was finished on 22 June 1934. The same year, baron Jean de Dorlodot published an article about the excavation process, considering most bones part of a single sauropod skeleton, washed into the sea by river flooding.
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