Eolambia

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Eolambia Fossil range: Early Cretaceous
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Sauropsida Superorder: Dinosauria Order: Ornithischia Suborder: Ornithopoda Infraorder: Iguanodontia Superfamily: Hadrosauroidea Genus: Eolambia
Binomial name
Eolambia caroljonesa Kirkland, 1998

Eolambia (named from the Greek eos/ηως meaning 'dawn' or 'morning', implying 'early'. The Lambia suffix is after Lawrence Lambe, Canadian Palaeontologist, whose name was given to Lambeosaurus. In all, the name means "dawn (or early) lambeosaurine".

It was an iguanodontian dinosaur from the mid-Cretaceous Period. Its fossils have been found in Utah, USA.

The type species, Eolambia caroljonesa, was described by James Ian Kirkland, in 1998. Partial skeletons have been discovered. Kirkland also named Eohadrosaurus but it is now considered to be the same animal.

[edit] References

• The Igunodontia
• Reclassification of Eolambia

[edit] Links

• Eolambia in the Dino Directory