Plesiohadros
Plesiohadros (meaning "near to hadrosaurids") is an extinct genus of 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]
| Plesiohadros | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Order: | †Ornithischia |
| Suborder: | †Ornithopoda |
| Superfamily: | †Hadrosauroidea |
| Genus: | †Plesiohadros Tsogtbaatar et al., 2014 |
| Type species | |
| Plesiohadros djadokhtaensis Tsogtbaatar et al., 2014 | |
Paleoecology
Plesiohadros is the only known hadrosaur from the Djadochta Formation.
References
- Khishigjav Tsogtbaatar; David Weishampel; David C. Evans & Mahito Watabe (2014). "A new hadrosauroid (Plesiohadros djadokhtaensis) from the Late Cretaceous Djadokhtan fauna of southern Mongolia". In David A. Eberth & David C. Evans (eds.). Hadrosaurs. Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-01385-9.
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