Kazaklambia

Kazakh (Kazakhstan) + Lambe (after Lawrence Lambe)

• Kazak · Modern place name · Kazakhstan / Kazakh
• Lambe · Personal name · Lawrence Lambe, Canadian paleontologist
• -ia · Latin · Latin place/name suffix

The name combines "Kazak", for Kazakhstan where the fossils were found, with "Lambe", honouring Canadian paleontologist Lawrence Lambe. Lambe's name is also the root of the hadrosaur group Lambeosaurinae, to which this animal belongs. The genus is a crested duck-billed dinosaur from Kazakhstan.

Period

Late Cretaceous

Found in

Kazakhstan

A lambeosaurine hadrosaurid; the type species is Kazaklambia convincens, which was originally described under a different genus name and later given its own genus. Author and year are omitted because I am not certain of them.