The holotype specimen of
Qunkasaura is a partial skeleton belonging to a single individual. It is part of a bonebed discovered in 2007, which includes the associated skeletons of multiple titanosaur taxa, as well as other dinosaurs,
eusuchians, and many other animals. It was
described as a new genus and species of titanosaur in 2024. The
generic name,
Qunkasaura, combines the name of
Qunca or Kunka, a Spanish city that gave rise to the village of
Fuentes in
Cuenca, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain, where the Lo Hueco site is located, with the Greek word
saura, meaning "lizard"; it also refers to
Antonio Saura, a twentieth-century painter from Cuenca. The
specific name,
pintiquiniestra, refers to Queen Pintiquiniestra, a character from the novel
Don Quixote by
Miguel de Cervantes. == Classification ==