Secernosaurus

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Secernosaurus
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?
Genus: Secernosaurus
Species: S. koerneri
Binomial name
Secernosaurus koerneri
Brett-Surman, 1979

Secernosaurus (meaning "severed lizard") is the name given to a genus of herbivorous dinosaurs. Secernosaurus was a hadrosaur, a "duck-billed" dinosaur which lived during the Late Cretaceous. Its fossils have been found in Argentina.

The type species is Secernosaurus koerneri, described in 1979.

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