| Plesiohadros 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: | † Ornithopoda |
| Superfamily: | † Hadrosauroidea |
| Genus: | †
Plesiohadros Tsogtbaatar et al., 2014 |
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| Plesiohadros djadokhtaensis Tsogtbaatar et al., 2014
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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 Alagteeg Formation of southern Mongolia. The type species is Plesiohadros djadokhtaensis. [1] [2]
Paleoecology
Plesiohadros is the only known hadrosaur from the Alagteeg Formation.
References
- ^ Tsogtbaatar, K.; Weishampel, D.; Evans, D. C.; Watabe, M. (2014). "A New Hadrosauroid (Plesiohadros djadokhtaensis) from the Late Cretaceous Djadokhtan Fauna of Southern Mongolia". In Eberth, D. A.; Evans, D. C. (eds.). Hadrosaurs. Indiana University Press. pp. 108−135. ISBN 978-0-253-01385-9.
- ^ Hasegawa, H.; Tada, R.; Ichinnorov, N.; Minjin, C. (2009). "Lithostratigraphy and depositional environments of the Upper Cretaceous Djadokhta Formation, Ulan Nuur basin, southern Mongolia, and its paleoclimatic implication". Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 35 (1): 13−26. Bibcode: 2009JAESc..35...13H. doi: 10.1016/j.jseaes.2008.11.010.
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