Stokesosaurus

Stokes' lizard

• Stokes · Latinised personal name · William Lee Stokes, American geologist and paleontologist
• sauros · Greek · lizard

The name honours William Lee Stokes, a University of Utah geologist and paleontologist who worked on Utah's fossil beds and the Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry. It was combined with the Greek word for "lizard", a common ending for dinosaur names. The type species is Stokesosaurus clevelandi, which refers to the Cleveland-Lloyd quarry.

Named by

Madsen

Year named

1974

Period

Late Jurassic

Stage

Kimmeridgian

Found in

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

A small early tyrannosauroid theropod known from fragmentary remains. A second species, S. langhami, from the Kimmeridge Clay of England, was later moved to its own genus, Juratyrant. Exact stage range is approximate.