Heilongjiangosaurus

"Heilongjiangosaurus" (meaning "Heilongjiang Province lizard") is the informal name given to an as-yet undescribed genus of duckbilled dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous. It possibly was a lambeosaurine, and may in fact be the same animal as Charonosaurus. The fossils were found in Maastrichtian-age rocks in Heilongjiang, China. As a nomen nudum, we cannot be certain of what it is supposed to be, but there also appears to be a connection to an obscure species called Mandschurosaurus jiayinensis,^[1] named in 1983.^[2]

The "type species" is "H. jiayinensis", and it was coined in 2001 in a faunal list by Li and Jin.^[3]

[edit] References

^ Glut, Donald F. (2003). "Heilongjiangosaurus", Dinosaurs: The Encyclopedia. 3rd Supplement. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc., 606. ISBN 0-7864-1166-X.
^ George Olshevsky. Dinosaur Genera List update #180. Retrieved on 2007-03-01.
^ Weirong, Li; and Jidong, Jin (2001). "On the Upper Cretaceous Jiayin Group of Heilongjiang Province, China", in Deng Tao and Wang Yuan (eds.): Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Chinese Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (in Chinese with English abstract). Beijing: China Ocean Press, 65-74.