Plesiohadros
| Plesiohadros Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, 80–75 Ma | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Order: | †Ornithischia |
| Suborder: | †Ornithopoda |
| Family: | †Hadrosauridae |
| Genus: | †Plesiohadros Tsogtbaatar, Weishampel, Evans, and Watabe, 2014 |
| Species: | †P. djadokhtaensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Plesiohadros djadokhtaensis Tsogtbaatar, Weishampel, Evans, and Watabe, 2014 | |
Plesiohadros is an extinct genus of basal hadrosauroid dinosaur. It is known from a partial skeleton including the skull collected at Alag Teg locality, from the Campanian Djadochta Formation of southern Mongolia. The type species is Plesiohadros djadokhtaensis.[1]
Paleoecology
Plesiohadros is the only known hadrosaur from the Djadochta Formation.
References
- ↑ Khishigjav Tsogtbaatar, David Weishampel, David C. Evans and Mahito Watabe (in press). "A new hadrosauroid (Plesiohadros djadokhtaensis) from the Late Cretaceous Djadokhtan fauna of southern Mongolia". In David A. Eberth; David C. Evans. Hadrosaurs: Proceedings of the International Hadrosaur Symposium. Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-01385-9. Check date values in:
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