Arkharavia

Arkhara ravine (lizard)

• Arkhara · Russian/Toponymic · Arkhara (a river and district in the Amur region of Russia)
• -avia · Russian · ravine or gully (from Russian 'овраг', ovrag, or used as a place-name suffix)

Arkharavia is named after the Arkhara district and the Arkhara River in the Amur Oblast of the Russian Far East, where the fossil material was discovered. The suffix '-avia' references the locality more specifically, alluding to the ravine or gully setting of the find site. The name essentially means "from the Arkhara (ravine/locality)." It honours the geographic origin of the specimen in the Russian Far East.

Named by

Bolotsky and Kurzanov

Year named

2000

Period

Late Cretaceous

Stage

Maastrichtian

Found in

Udurchukan Formation, Amur Oblast, Russia

Arkharavia is a hadrosaur (hadrosaurid dinosaur) from the Late Cretaceous of the Russian Far East. It is based on fragmentary material (vertebrae) from the Udurchukan Formation, Amur Oblast. It is generally considered a nomen dubium because the material is too incomplete to confidently diagnose a distinct genus. Some researchers have suggested it may be referrable to Amurosaurus or a closely related hadrosaur, but no formal synonymy has been universally accepted.