Canardia

duck (French 'canard') with a Latinised ending

• canard · French · duck
• -ia · Latin · Latinised noun ending

The name comes from the French word "canard", meaning duck, with a Latin ending. It refers to the duck-billed hadrosaurids, the group this dinosaur belongs to. The only known species, Canardia garonnensis, takes its species name from the Haute-Garonne department of southwestern France, where it was found.

Named by

Prieto-Márquez et al.

Year named

2019

Period

Late Cretaceous

Stage

Maastrichtian

Found in

Marnes d'Auzas Formation, Haute-Garonne, southern France

A lambeosaurine hadrosaurid, the group of crested duck-billed dinosaurs. It is considered a fairly basal member that lacked a hollow crest. It was one of the last hadrosaurids known from Europe.