Marshosaurus

Marsh's lizard

• Marsh · English (personal name) · Othniel Charles Marsh, American paleontologist
• sauros · Greek · lizard

The name honours Othniel Charles Marsh, the 19th-century Yale paleontologist who described many famous North American dinosaurs from the Morrison Formation, combined with the Greek word for lizard. It was named for Marsh because the fossils come from the same Late Jurassic rocks where he did much of his pioneering work. The type species, M. bicentesimus, refers to the 200th anniversary of the United States, as it was named in 1976.

Named by

Madsen

Year named

1976

Period

Late Jurassic

Stage

Kimmeridgian

Found in

Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry, Morrison Formation, Utah, USA

A medium-sized theropod, usually considered a basal tetanuran (often placed among megalosauroids). It is known from fragmentary remains.