Gilmoreosaurus

Gilmore's lizard

• Gilmore · Surname (Latinised) · Charles Whitney Gilmore, American paleontologist
• sauros · Greek · lizard

The name honours the American paleontologist Charles Whitney Gilmore, who first described the Inner Mongolian fossils in 1933 under the name Mandschurosaurus mongoliensis. When Brett-Surman later decided the species deserved its own genus, he combined Gilmore's name with the Greek word for lizard.

Named by

Brett-Surman

Year named

1979

Period

Late Cretaceous

Found in

Iren Dabasu Formation, Inner Mongolia, China

A hadrosauroid (basal duck-billed dinosaur). The type species is G. mongoliensis, originally named Mandschurosaurus mongoliensis by Gilmore in 1933. Its validity and relationship to Bactrosaurus, and the exact age of the Iren Dabasu Formation, have been debated. I left the geologic stages blank because the dating is uncertain.