Arenysaurus

Arenysaurus

Arenysaurus Fossil range: Late Cretaceous
Scientific classification
Class:	Reptilia
Superorder:	Dinosauria
Order:	Ornithischia
Suborder:	Ornithopoda
Family:	Hadrosauridae
Genus:	Arenysaurus Pereda-Suberbiola et al., 2009
Species:	A. ardevoli Pereda-Suberbiola et al., 2009 (type)

Arenysaurus is a genus of hadrosaurid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous. Its fossils were found in the Pyrenees Mountains of what is today Spain. The type species is A. ardevoli, described in 2009 by Pereda-Suberbiola et al., a group of researchers from Spain.^[1] The genus name refers to Arén, the specific name honours geologist Lluís Ardèvol.

References[]

^ Xabier Pereda-Suberbiola, José Ignacio Canudo, Penélope Cruzado-Caballero, José Luis Barco, Nieves López-Martínez, Oriol Oms, and José Ignacio Ruiz-Omeñaca. (2009) "The last hadrosaurid dinosaurs of Europe: A new lambeosaurine from the Uppermost Cretaceous of Aren (Huesca, Spain)" Comptes Rendus Palevol doi:10.1016/j.crpv.2009.05.002

[Peredaetal-1] Xabier Pereda-Suberbiola, José Ignacio Canudo, Penélope Cruzado-Caballero, José Luis Barco, Nieves López-Martínez, Oriol Oms, and José Ignacio Ruiz-Omeñaca. (2009) "The last hadrosaurid dinosaurs of Europe: A new lambeosaurine from the Uppermost Cretaceous of Aren (Huesca, Spain)" Comptes Rendus Palevol doi:10.1016/j.crpv.2009.05.002

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