Lamplughsaura

Lamplugh's lizard

• Lamplugh · English (surname) · honoree's surname
• saura · Greek · lizard

The name combines the surname Lamplugh, honouring a person of that name connected with the study of the fossil beds or the research, with the Greek word for lizard. The name therefore means roughly "Lamplugh's lizard". The type species is L. dharmaramensis, named for the Dharmaram Formation where it was found.

Named by

Kutty et al.

Year named

2007

Period

Early Jurassic

Found in

Dharmaram Formation, Pranhita–Godavari Basin, Telangana, India

A sauropodomorph (early long-necked dinosaur relative). Details of who the name honours are not confirmed here, so that part of the etymology is left general.