The Coloradisaurus name means Colorados lizard. This dinosaurs' name used to be Coloradia but the name was already taken from a moth so it was changed to Coloradisaurus. This dinosaur could easily really be a Mussaurus since only a partial fossil skeleton was found. The fossils of this herbivore were found in Argentina and described by described by Jose Bonapart, an Argentine paleontologist, in 1978. The dinosaur was later, redescribed by Lambert in 1983.