#mandschurosaurus

By José Carlos Cortés on @ryuukibart

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Name: Mandschurosaurus amurensis, M. laosensis

Name Meaning: Manchuria Reptile 

First Described: 1930

Described By: Riabinin

Classification: Dinosauria, Ornithischia, Genasauria, Neornithischia, Cerapoda, Ornithopoda, Iguanodontia, Dryomorpha, Ankylopollexia, Styracosterna, Hadrosauriformes, Hadrosauroidea, Hadrosauridae

Mandschurosaurus is a hadrosaur known from Manchuria, China, specifically Belye Kruchi. It lived 66 million years ago in the Maastrichtian age of the Late Cretaceous. It is known from very fragmentary and poorly preserved material. As such, many species have been ascribed to it. Two species have been ascribed to it that remain, both fairly dubious, and another has been assigned to Gilmoreosaurus instead. Though the type species is still considered a valid taxon, it is based on such poor material that even this genus is dubious. The other species is even more so. 

Source:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandschurosaurus