Tanius

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Tanius
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: Edmontosaurini
Genus: Tanius
Species: T. sinensis
Binomial name
Tanius sinensis
Wiman, 1929

Tanius (meaning "of the Tan") was a hadrosaurid dinosaur. It lived in Late Cretaceous China. The type species, described in 1929 by Wiman, is T. sinensis. Other species assigned to Tanius have been moved to other genera, including Bactrosaurus and Tsintaosaurus.

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