Albalophosaurus

Albalophosaurus (meaning 'white crest lizard') is a genus of marginocephalian ornithischian dinosaur that lived in Japan during the Early Cretaceous. The type species is Albalophosaurus yamaguchiorum.

==History of discovery== thumb|left|View of Mount Hakusan, the mountain Albalophosaurus was named after Albalophosaurus was described in 2009 from remains found in 1997 by Yoshinori Kobayashi from the Kuwajima Formation of central Japan, outcropping in Hakusan in the Ishikawa Prefecture. The holotype, SBEI 176, consists of cranial bones from an incomplete, disarticulated skull and left lower jaw thought to belong to a single juvenile individual. The generic name is derived from Latin albus, "white", and Greek λόΦος (lophos), "crest", a reference to the snow-covered crest of Mount Hakusan. The specific name honours Ichio Yamaguchi and Mikiko Yamaguchi, who discovered and prepared many fossils from the site.