Genus: Ardetosaurus van der LINDEN, TSCHOPP, SOOKIAS, WALLAARD, HOLWERDA & SCHULP, 2024
Etymology: Latin, ardere (ardeto), "to burn", in reference to the history of some of the elemetns, which were either fully destroyed ina fire, or still sho burn scars from a fire, and Greek, sauros, "lizard."

Species: viator van der LINDEN, TSCHOPP, SOOKIAS, WALLAARD, HOLWERDA & SCHULP, 2024
Etymology: Latin, viator, "traveler", referring to the journey of the specimen from the USA, via Switzerland adn Germany, to the Netherlands.

Holotype: MAB011899

Locality: Howe Stephens Quarry, Big Horn County, Wyoming.

Horizon: Member?, Lower Morrison Formation.

Biostratigraphy: Zone?

Age: Comobluffian age, Kimmeridgian Stage, uppermost Malm Epoch, Late Jurassic.

Material: 2 cervical vertebrae, 10 dorsal vertebrae, sacrum, 5 caudal vertebrae, 8 dorsal ribs, 2 chevrons, a left coracoid, a left ilium, both pubes, both ischia, a left femur, a left tibia, and a partial left fibula.