Kritosaurus

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Kritosaurus
Fossil range: Late Cretaceous
Conservation status
Extinct (fossil)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Sauropsida
Superorder: Dinosauria
Order: Ornithischia
Suborder: Ornithopoda
Infraorder: Iguanodontia
Superfamily: Hadrosauroidea
Family: Hadrosauridae
Subfamily: Hadrosaurinae
Tribe: Saurolophini
Genus: Kritosaurus
Brown, 1910
Species: K. navajovius
Binomial name
Kritosaurus navajovius
Brown, 1910
Species

K. navajovius
?K. australis Bonaparte, Franchi, Powell, & Sepulveda, 1984

Kritosaurus is an incompletely known genus of hadrosaurid dinosaur from the late Cretaceous of North and possibly South America, similar to Gryposaurus. Kritosaurus ("separated-lizard"), based on remains including a partial skull, is considered a nomen dubium. K. australis is a hadrosaurid from Patagonia which was referred to this genus in 1984, although it might not belong with it.

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