Galtonia

Galton's one

• Galton · Proper noun (English surname) · honouring palaeontologist Peter M. Galton
• -ia · Latin · standard Latinising suffix

Galtonia is named in honour of British-American palaeontologist Peter M. Galton, who made extensive contributions to the study of ornithischian and prosauropod dinosaurs. The suffix '-ia' is a standard Latin ending used to form genus names in honour of a person. The name was coined to recognise Galton's influential work on Triassic and Jurassic dinosaur faunas.

Named by

Hunt and Lucas

Year named

1994

Period

Late Triassic

Stage

Norian

Found in

Lockatong Formation and related strata, Pennsylvania, USA

Galtonia is a Late Triassic ornithischian (or possibly basal dinosauriform) known only from isolated teeth from the Newark Supergroup of Pennsylvania, USA. It is widely regarded as a nomen dubium because the material is too fragmentary and non-diagnostic to be confidently assigned or distinguished from other taxa. It should not be confused with the flowering plant genus Galtonia (a hyacinth relative), which was named earlier and for a different person.