Wulagasaurus
woo-LAH-gah-SORE-us /wuˌlɑːɡəˈsɔːrəs/
Accepted genus
Wulaga lizard
- Wulaga · Place name (Chinese) · the fossil locality on the Amur River, Heilongjiang, China
- sauros · Greek · lizard
Wulagasaurus is named after Wulaga, the locality on the Amur (Heilongjiang) River in northeastern China where its fossils were found, combined with the Greek word for lizard. It is a hadrosaurid, a duck-billed dinosaur. The name therefore means 'Wulaga lizard'.
- Named by
- Godefroit et al.
- Year named
- 2008
- Period
- Late Cretaceous
- Stage
- Maastrichtian
- Found in
- Yuliangze Formation, Wulaga, Heilongjiang Province, China
A lambeosaurine hadrosaurid; the type species is Wulagasaurus dingi. Its relationships to other Amur River hadrosaurids such as Sahaliyania have been debated.