Horshamosaurus

Horsham lizard

• Horsham · English (place name) · Horsham (town in West Sussex, England)
• -o- · Latin/Greek · linking vowel
• saurus · Greek · lizard

Horshamosaurus is named after Horsham, a town in West Sussex, England, near where its fossils were discovered. The suffix '-saurus' is derived from the Greek word 'sauros', meaning 'lizard', and is a standard suffix used in dinosaur names. The name therefore translates as 'Horsham lizard'. The genus was erected to honour the geographic origin of the specimen.

Named by

Huene

Year named

1928

Period

Early Cretaceous

Stage

Barremian

Found in

Wessex Formation, West Sussex, England, UK

Horshamosaurus is generally regarded as a nomen dubium. It was described by Friedrich von Huene in 1928 on the basis of fragmentary ankylosaur material from the Wealden Group of West Sussex, England. The material is too incomplete to confidently diagnose a distinct genus, and the name is not widely used in modern literature. It is a nodosaurid or polacanthid ankylosaur.