Achelousaurus
Translingual
Etymology
From Ancient Greek Ἀχελῷος (Akhelôios, “Achelous, a Greek shapeshifting deity”) + -saurus, named by Scott Sampson in 1994 in reference to its transitional morphology and change through ontogeny.
Proper noun
†Achelousaurus m
- A taxonomic genus within the family Ceratopsidae – a ceratopsian dinosaur from the Cretaceous of North America.