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

“Stretham lizard” named for Stretham, near where the fossil was found in the Kimmeridge Clay of Cambridgeshire, England. Named by Tarlo [a pseudonym of Lambert Beverly Halstead, who sometimes signed his papers, “Halstead Tarlo”] in 1959.

An “ostrich lizard” from Late Cretaceous eastern Austria, Hungary, Romania, and southern France. This creature was formerly known as Hoplosaurus, Leipsanosaurus, Onychosaurus, Pleuropeltus, and Rhodanosaurus. Named by Emanuel Bunzel in 1870.

A “spiked lizard” from Late Cretaceous Alberta, Canada and Montana, USA. Named by Canadian fossil hunter Lawrence M. Lambe in 1913.

A “Hell Creek lizard” from Late Cretaceous North America. Its name comes for Styx, the mythical river in Hades, a reference to the type of locality at Hell Creek, Logan County, Kansas. Named by U. S. paleontologist Samuel Paul Welles in 1943.

A “super (above) lizard” from Late Jurassic western Colorado, USA. Named by U. S. paleontologist James A. Jensen in 1985.

This nomenclature (“fused-roof lizard”) is no longer recognized by scientists because they found that it described an animal that was previously given another name which is Camptosaurus.

This nomenclature (“kindred lizard”) is no longer recognized by scientists because they found that it described an animal that was previously given another name which is Anoplosaurus or Acanthopholis. Named by Harry Govier Seeley in 1879.

This nomenclature (“crawling lizard”) is no longer recognized by scientists because they found that it described an animal that was previously given another name which is Pinacosaurus. Named by Yevgenii (or Evgeny) Alexandrovich Maleev in 1952.

“Szechuan lizard” from Late Jurassic period and found in Szechuan (Sichuan) Province, China. Named by Chinese paleontologist Yang Zhong-jian (also known as: Chung Chien Young) in 1942.

A “pit (vertebra) lizard” from Late Cretaceous North America. Its name comes from Greek taphros, “pit, trench” and refers to the vertebrae.

A “Tarascan (Tarasque) lizard” from Late Cretaceous southern France. Named for the Tarasque, a legendary dragon-like monster from the Provence region, that once terrorized the town of Tarascon, France. Named by French paleontologists Jean Le Loeuff and Erik Buffetaut in 1991.

An “alarming (terrible, dreadful) lizard” from Late Cretaceous Mongolia. It is considered to be an invalid name for Tyrannosaurus bataar. Named by Yevgenii (or Evgeny) Alexandrovich Maleev (or Yevgenii Aleksandrovich Maleyev) in 1955.

“Ta-Ti lizard” from Late Triassic (or perhaps Early Jurassic) Tati, Yunnan Province, southern China. Named by D. J. Simmons in 1965.

“Taveiro lizard” from Late Cretaceous Portugal. Named for Taveiro, a village in Portugal, near where the fossil was discovered. Named by Telles-Antunes and Denise Sigogneau-Russell in 1991.

Lufengosaurus, meaning "Lufeng Lizard"; from the Early Jurassic period in what is now southwestern China. Named by Chinese paleontologist Yang Zhong-jian (also known as Chung Chien Young) in 1982.