Plesiohadros
| Plesiohadros Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, 80–75 Ma | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Order: | †Ornithischia |
| Suborder: | †Ornithopoda |
| Superfamily: | †Hadrosauroidea |
| Family: | †Hadrosauridae |
| Genus: | †Plesiohadros Tsogtbaatar, Weishampel, Evans, and Watabe, 2014 |
| Species: | † P. djadokhtaensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Plesiohadros djadokhtaensis Tsogtbaatar, Weishampel, Evans, and Watabe, 2014 | |
Plesiohadros is an extinct genus of basal hadrosauroid dinosaur. It is known from a partial skeleton including the skull collected at Alag Teg locality, from the Campanian Djadochta Formation of southern Mongolia. The type species is Plesiohadros djadokhtaensis.[1]
Paleoecology
Plesiohadros is the only known hadrosaur from the Djadochta Formation.
References
- ↑ Khishigjav Tsogtbaatar, David Weishampel, David C. Evans and Mahito Watabe (in press). "A new hadrosauroid (Plesiohadros djadokhtaensis) from the Late Cretaceous Djadokhtan fauna of southern Mongolia". In David A. Eberth and David C. Evans (eds). Hadrosaurs: Proceedings of the International Hadrosaur Symposium. Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-01385-9. Check date values in:
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