Genus: Nanuqsaurus FIORILLO & TYKOSKI, 2014
Etymology: Inupiq, nanuq, "polar bear" (source:http://www.alaskool.org/language/dictionaries/inupiq/dictonary.htm) and Greek, sauros, "lizard."

Species: hoglundi FIORILLO & TYKOSKI, 2014
Etymology: In honor of Forrest Hogulund for his career in earth sciences and his philanthropic efforts in furthing cultural institutions.

Holotype: DMNH 21461

Locality: Kikak-Tegoseak Quarry, North Slope Borough, Alaska.

Horizon: Prince Creek Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Early Late Maastrichtian Stage, uppermost Senonian subepoch, Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material: Disarticulated parts of a skull including a peice of the ascending ramus (= nasal process, dorsal process) of the right maxilla, partial skull roof including parts of both frontls, parietals, and right laterosphenoid, adn a section of the left dentary from rostral tip to a plane through the unerupted tenth dentary tooth.

Nanuqsaurus hoglundi (after FIORILLO & TYKOSKI, 2014), Holotype: DMNH 21461.