Nipponosaurus

Japan lizard

• Nippon · Japanese · Japan
• sauros · Greek · lizard

The name combines "Nippon", the Japanese name for Japan, with the Greek word for lizard. It was chosen because the fossil was found in what was then Japanese territory (Karafuto, now southern Sakhalin, Russia). It was the first dinosaur described from Japanese territory.

Named by

Nagao

Year named

1936

Period

Late Cretaceous

Stage

Santonian

Found in

Upper Cretaceous Yezo Group, southern Sakhalin (formerly Karafuto, Japan), Russia

A lambeosaurine hadrosaurid known from a single, probably juvenile, skeleton. The type species is Nipponosaurus sachalinensis. The exact age of the fossil is somewhat uncertain (Santonian is the commonly cited age).