Koreanosaurus
| Koreanosaurus Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | †Ornithischia |
| Clade: | †Neornithischia |
| Family: | †Thescelosauridae |
| Subfamily: | †Orodrominae |
| Genus: | †Koreanosaurus Huh et al., 2011 |
| Species: | †K. boseongensis
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| Binomial name | |
| †Koreanosaurus boseongensis Huh et al., 2011
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Koreanosaurus (meaning "Korean lizard") is a genus of neornithischian dinosaur. One species has been described, Koreanosaurus boseongensis.
Discovery
In 2003 three fossils of Koreanosaurus were found in the Late Cretaceous-age Seonso Conglomerate from the southern coast of the Bi-bong Dinosaur Fossil Findspot, Boseong, Korean Peninsula:[1] the holotype KDRC-BB2, a partial skeleton lacking the skull, and the paratypes KDRC-BB1 and KDRC-BB3.[2] The type species is Koreanosaurus boseongensis, after its discovery locality (Boseong site 5). The type species was initially named and described in a master's thesis by Lee Dae-Gil in 2008,[3] and was officially published by Min Huh, Dae-Gil Lee, Jung-Kyun Kim, Jong-Deock Lim and Pascal Godefroit in 2011.[2]
Classification
Koreanosaurus was considered to be a basal member of the Ornithopoda by the authors, forming a clade with Zephyrosaurus schaffi, Orodromeus makelai and Oryctodromeus cubicularis from which they deduced a burrowing lifestyle.[2] Han et al. found it plausible that Koreanosaurus might be a member of Jeholosauridae or closely related to it.[4]
References
- ^ 전남대 허민 교수팀, 한국 이름명 공룡 복원. Yonhap (in Korean). 2010-11-01. Archived from the original on 2011-10-02. Retrieved 2011-05-04.
- ^ a b c Min Huh; Dae-Gil Lee; Jung-Kyun Kim; Jong-Deock Lim; Pascal Godefroit (2011). "A new basal ornithopod dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of South Korea". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen. 259 (1): 1–24. doi:10.1127/0077-7749/2010/0102.
- ^ Lee G., 2008, The ornithopod dinosaur (Ornithopoda: Hypsilophodontidae) from the Late Cretaceous Seonso Conglomerate of Boseong County, Korea, master's thesis Chonnam National University
- ^ Han, Feng-Lu; Paul M. Barrett; Richard J. Butler; Xing Xu (2012). "Postcranial anatomy of Jeholosaurus shangyuanensis (Dinosauria, Ornithischia) from the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation of China". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 32 (6): 1370–1395. doi:10.1080/02724634.2012.694385.
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