Adynomosaurus

weak lizard

• adynomos · Greek · weak, feeble
• sauros · Greek · lizard

The name combines a Greek word meaning "weak" or "feeble" with the Greek word for "lizard". It refers to the animal's relatively slender, lightly built skeleton. The type species is Adynomosaurus arcanus, and "arcanus" is Latin for "secret" or "hidden".

Named by

Prieto-Márquez et al.

Year named

2019

Period

Late Cretaceous

Stage

Maastrichtian

Found in

Tremp Basin, Catalonia, Spain

A valid genus of lambeosaurine hadrosaurid. It is known from the Iberian part of the Late Cretaceous European archipelago. The exact reason for the name and the finer locality details are given from memory and may be imprecise.