Anasazisaurus

Anasazi lizard

• Anasazi · Navajo (via English) · ancestral Puebloan people of the American Southwest
• sauros · Greek · lizard

The name combines "Anasazi", the term often used for the ancestral Puebloan people who lived in the American Southwest, with the Greek word for lizard. It honours the ancient peoples of the region where the fossils were found in New Mexico. The type species, A. horneri, was named after the paleontologist Jack Horner.

Named by

Hunt and Lucas

Year named

1993

Period

Late Cretaceous

Stage

Campanian

Found in

Kirtland Formation, San Juan Basin, New Mexico, USA

A hadrosaurid (duck-billed dinosaur) known from fragmentary skull material. Many recent studies (e.g. Prieto-Márquez 2014) treat it as a junior synonym of Kritosaurus (K. navajovius), though some researchers have regarded it as distinct.