Arenysaurus

Arén lizard

• Areny · Aragonese/Catalan (place name) · Arén, the village in Huesca, Spain
• sauros · Greek · lizard

Arenysaurus is named after Arén, the village in Huesca province, northeastern Spain, near where the fossils were found, combined with the Greek word for lizard. The name uses "Areny", the local Aragonese/Catalan form of the place name. It is a lambeosaurine duck-billed dinosaur (hadrosaur) and one of the best-known hadrosaurs from Europe.

Named by

Pereda-Suberbiola et al.

Year named

2009

Period

Late Cretaceous

Stage

Maastrichtian

Found in

Arén Formation, near Arén, Huesca Province, Aragon, Spain

Type species is Arenysaurus ardevoli. It is a lambeosaurine hadrosaurid from the latest Cretaceous of the Ibero-Armorican region.