Lambeosaurus

Lambe's lizard

• Lambe · Latinised personal name · honouring Lawrence Lambe, Canadian paleontologist
• sauros · Greek · lizard

Lambeosaurus means "Lambe's lizard". It honours Lawrence Lambe, the Canadian paleontologist who studied and described many dinosaurs from the Cretaceous of Alberta, including the first Lambeosaurus specimens. William Parks named it in 1923. It is a hadrosaurid with a hollow hatchet-shaped crest.

Named by

Parks

Year named

1923

Period

Late Cretaceous

Stage

Campanian

Found in

Dinosaur Park Formation and Oldman Formation, Alberta, Canada; possibly also Baja California, Mexico (La Bocana Roja / El Gallo Formation)

A lambeosaurine hadrosaurid. The type species is Lambeosaurus lambei. Several species have been assigned to the genus, and some of them have been reassigned to other genera over time. For example, "L. laticaudus" is now Magnapaulia.