Blasisaurus
BLAH-see-SORE-us /ˌblɑːsiˈsɔːrəs/
Accepted genus
Blasi lizard
- Blasi · Place name · the Blasi fossil sites near Arén, Spain
- sauros · Greek · lizard
The name combines "Blasi", the name of the fossil locality (the Blasi sites near Arén in Huesca, Aragon, Spain) where the bones were found, with the Greek word for lizard. It literally means "lizard from Blasi". The only named species, B. canudoi, honours Spanish palaeontologist José Ignacio Canudo.
- Named by
- Cruzado-Caballero et al.
- Year named
- 2010
- Period
- Late Cretaceous
- Stage
- Maastrichtian
- Found in
- Arén Formation, Huesca, Aragon, Spain
A lambeosaurine hadrosaurid known from fragmentary remains. Type species Blasisaurus canudoi. Its exact relationships within Lambeosaurinae are uncertain.