Plesiohadros
Appearance
Plesiohadros Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,
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Scientific 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
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Binomial name | |
†Plesiohadros djadokhtaensis Tsogtbaatar, Weishampel, Evans, and Watabe, 2014
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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; David C. Evans (eds.). Hadrosaurs: Proceedings of the International Hadrosaur Symposium. Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-01385-9.
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