Canardia Canardia

Canardia is an extinct genus of lambeosaurine dinosaur known from the Late Cretaceous Marnes d’Auzas Formation (late Maastrichtian stage) of Haute-Garonne department, in Occitanie region, southwestern France. The type species Canardia garonnensis was first described and named by Albert Prieto-Márquez, Fabio M. Dalla Vecchia, Rodrigo Gaete and Àngel Galobart in 2013. It is only known from juvenile specimens.

The name of the genus comes from “canard”, the French word for “duck”, an allusion to the fact that this animal belongs to the Hadrosauridae which are also known as “duck-billed dinosaurs”. The specific epithet garonnensis refers to the Haute-Garonne department where this dinosaur has been found. Although universally recognized as a member of the Lambeosaurinae, its precise position within the subfamily is debated.