Kerberosaurus

Cerberus lizard

• Kerberos · Greek · Cerberus, the hound that guards Hades
• sauros · Greek · lizard

The name combines Kerberos, the Greek name for Cerberus, the monstrous hound that guards the entrance to the underworld (Hades), with the Greek word for lizard. It is a mythological reference to the "guardian of the underworld". The type species, K. manakini, honours a person named Manakin.

Named by

Bolotsky and Godefroit

Year named

2004

Period

Late Cretaceous

Stage

Maastrichtian

Found in

Udurchukan Formation, Amur Region, Far East Russia

A saurolophine hadrosaurid ("duck-billed dinosaur") known from skull material. An earlier spelling, "Cerberosaurus", was used informally before the formal name was published, and is not the valid name.