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Plesiohadros

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Plesiohadros
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, 80–75 Ma
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Ornithischia
Clade: Neornithischia
Clade: Ornithopoda
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

  1. ^ 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; David C. Evans (eds.). Hadrosaurs: Proceedings of the International Hadrosaur Symposium. Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-01385-9. {{cite book}}: Check date values in: |year= (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: year (link)