Huallasaurus
Sign in to saveHuallasaurus (meaning "duck lizard") is an extinct genus of saurolophine hadrosaur from the Late Cretaceous Los Alamitos Formation of Patagonia in Argentina. The type and only species is H. australis. Originally named as a species of Kritosaurus in 1984, it was long considered a synonym of Secernosaurus before being recognized as its own distinct genus in a 2022 study, different from other members of Kritosaurini.
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It is catalogued under topics including Dinosaur genera, Dinosaurs of Argentina and Fossil taxa described in 1984.
Its subject is documented across 7 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Parent taxon
- Hadrosauridae
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- Hadrosaur museum.jpg
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- time period
- Late Cretaceous
- location of discovery
- Los Alamitos Formation
- Commons category
- Huallasaurus
- taxon name
- Huallasaurus
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- genus
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Huallasaurus (meaning "duck lizard") is an extinct genus of saurolophine hadrosaur from the Late Cretaceous Los Alamitos Formation of Patagonia in Argentina. The type and only species is H. australis. Originally named as a species of Kritosaurus in 1984, it was long considered a synonym of Secernosaurus before being recognized as its own distinct genus in a 2022 study, different from other members of Kritosaurini.
== Discovery == The generic name, "Huallasaurus," combines "hualla," the Mapudungun word for "duck," and the Greek "sauros," meaning "lizard." The specific name, "australis," is derived from the Latin "australis," meaning "southern," after the discovery of the holotype specimen in southern Argentina.
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