| Arenysaurus Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, Maastrichtian |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Superorder: | Dinosauria |
| Order: | †Ornithischia |
| Suborder: | †Ornithopoda |
| Family: | †Hadrosauridae |
| Node: | †Euhadrosauria |
| Subfamily: | †Lambeosaurinae |
| Genus: | †Arenysaurus Pereda-Suberbiola et al., 2009 |
| Species: | †A. ardevoli |
| Binomial name | |
| Arenysaurus ardevoli Pereda-Suberbiola et al., 2009 |
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Arenysaurus is a genus of hadrosaurid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous. It is known from a partial skull and skeleton found in late Maastrichtian-age rocks of the Pyrenees Mountains in Spain. The type species is A. ardevoli, described in 2009 by Pereda-Suberbiola et al., a group of researchers from Spain. The genus name refers to Arén, where it was found, and the specific epithet honours geologist Lluís Ardèvol. The estimated body length of Arenysaurus is 5 to 6 metres (16 to 20 ft). Arenyosaurus was a basal lambeosaurine, a member of the hadrosaurid subfamily with hollow cranial crests.[1]