Albisaurus

Albi lizard

• Albi · Latin/place name · referring to Albi (a city in southern France, or possibly the Latin 'albus' meaning white)
• saurus · Greek · lizard

Albisaurus is composed of the root 'Albi-' and the Greek suffix '-saurus' meaning 'lizard'. The prefix most likely references the Latin word 'albus' (white), though it may also refer to a geographic locality. The name follows the common convention of combining a descriptive or geographic Latin root with the Greek '-saurus'. It is a poorly known and historically contentious genus.

Named by

Frič

Year named

1905

Period

Late Cretaceous

Found in

Czech Republic (formerly Bohemia)

Albisaurus scutifer was named by Antonín Frič (Fritsch) in 1905 from fragmentary material found in the Cretaceous of Bohemia (now the Czech Republic). The genus is generally considered a nomen dubium because the material is too fragmentary and non-diagnostic to reliably assign to a valid taxon. It is sometimes listed among ornithopods or as indeterminate dinosaur material. Confidence is medium due to the obscurity of the original description and limited modern review.