Bugenasaura

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iBugenasaura Fossil range: Late Cretaceous
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Sauropsida Superorder: Dinosauria Order: Ornithischia Suborder: Ornithopoda Family: Hypsilophodontidae Genus: Bugenasaura Galton, 1995
Species
B. infernalis (type) B. garbanii

Bugenasaura (meaning "large-cheeked lizard") is the name given to a genus of dinosaur belonging to the Hypsilophodontid family. It lived during the Late Cretaceous, in what is now South Dakota.

The type specimen, B. infernalis, was formalized by Galton in 1995. A second possible species, B. garbanii, is known from similar strata in Montana, but is based on poorer remains.

[edit] References

Galton, P. M. 1995. The species of the basal hypsilophodontid dinosaur Thescelosaurus Gilmore (Ornithischia: Ornithopoda) from the Late Cretaceous of North America. Neues Jahruch fuer Geologie und Palaeontologie. Abhandlungen A 198(3):297–311.

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