sauro-, saur-, -saurus, -saurid, -saur, -sauria, -saurian

This nomenclature (“before Cheneosaurus”) is no longer recognized by scientists because they found that it described an animal that was previously given another name which is either Corythosaurus or Lambeosaurus. Named by George Frederic Matthew (1837-?) in 1920.

Means “before Saurolophus or first-crested lizard” from Late Cretaceous Alberta, Canada. Named by paleontologist Barnum Brown (1873-1963) in 1916.

Means “before-the-lizard feet” from Mid Triassic to Early Jurassic included the first big, four-legged, plant-eating dinosaurs.

A “first-jaw lizard” from Early Jurassic China. The name comes from Greek protos, “first, forward” plus Greek gnathos, “jaw”. Named by paleontologist George Gyorgivich Olshevsky (a.k.a. Dinogeorge) in 1991.

Classified as being the same as Chasmosaurus, “cleft lizard” from Alberta and New Mexico.

A “parrot-beaked lizard” from Early Cretaceous Mongolia, east and northwest China, Thailand, and southern Siberia. It was named by U. S. paleontologist Henry Fairfield Osborn in 1923.

A family of “parrot lizards.”

A “winged lizard” that was a flying prehistoric reptile but not a dinosaur; however, it was closely related to dinosaurs.

Lizards with wings.

Classified as being the same as Procompsognathus, “before Compsognathus” from Late Triassic southern Germany.

A plant-eating dinosaur, an ornithopod found in Australia and was named by Patricia Vickers-Rich in 1997.

“Qin Ling lizard” from Late Cretaceous China. Its name comes from Qin Ling, another name for Shaazi Province, “mountain range”, in China. It was named by Xue, Zhang, and Bi in 1996.

“abnormal or extraordiary lizard” from Late Cretaceous Mongolia. Its name comes from Latin quaesitus, “uncommon, extraordinary” because of its unusual skull which is the only thing about this fossil that is known now. It was found in the Gobi deser of Mongolia. Named by A. F. Bannikov and Sergei Mikhailovich Kurzanov in 1983.

“Rayoso Formation lizard” from Early or Middle Cretaceous Argentina. It was named for the Middle Cretaceous Rayoso Formation, where the specimen was found in Neuquen Province, Patagonia, Argentina. Named by Argentinian paleontologist José Bonaparte in 1995 or 1996.

“Rebbachi-territory lizard” from Early Cretaceous Morocco, Nigeria, and Tunisia. Named by French paleontologist R. Lavocat in 1954 for the Alt Rebbach, the Berber tribe on whose territory the fossil was found at Gara Sba, Ksar-es-Souk Province, Morocco.