Laiyangosaurus
lie-YANG-oh-SORE-us /laɪˌjæŋoʊˈsɔːrəs/
Accepted genus
Laiyang lizard
- Laiyang · Chinese (place name) · Laiyang, Shandong, China
- sauros · Greek · lizard
The name combines Laiyang, the city and basin in Shandong Province, China, where the fossils were found, with the Greek word for "lizard". It marks the place of discovery. The type species, Laiyangosaurus youngi, honours the Chinese palaeontologist C. C. Young (Yang Zhongjian).
- Named by
- Zhang et al.
- Year named
- 2019
- Period
- Late Cretaceous
- Found in
- Laiyang Basin, Shandong Province, China
A hadrosauroid (duck-billed dinosaur) from the Late Cretaceous of eastern China. The naming authorship, year and exact geologic stage are given from memory and should be checked against the original description.