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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | β Ornithischia |
| Clade: | β Ornithopoda |
| Family: | β Hadrosauridae |
| Subfamily: | β Saurolophinae |
| Tribe: | β Edmontosaurini |
| Genus: | β Zhang et al., 2019 |
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| β Laiyangosaurus youngi Zhang et al., 2019
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Laiyangosaurus ("Laiyang lizard") is a genus of saurolophine hadrosaurid from the Late Cretaceous Jingangkou Formation of China. It is known from one species, L. youngi, found in the Laiyang Basin within the province of Shandong.
Classification
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Laiyangosaurus is a member of the saurolophine tribe Edmontosaurini. A number of specimens referred to Laiyangosaurus (IVPP V23405.1, V23403.1, V23402.1, V23404, V23402.7) apparently belong to kritosaurin and lambeosaurine hadrosaurids.[1]
Paleoenvironment
[edit]The Wangshi Series of Shandong Province has yielded a considerable amount of fossil material, including the remains of insects, plants and other vertebrates, including dinosaurs and dinosaur eggs.[2]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Zhang, Yu-Guang; Wang, Ke-Bai; Chen, Shu-Qing; Liu, Di; Xing, Hai (2019). "Osteological Reβassessment and Taxonomic Revision of "Tanius laiyangensis" (Ornithischia: Hadrosauroidea) from the Upper Cretaceous of Shandong, China". The Anatomical Record. doi:10.1002/ar.24097.
- ^ Zhang, J.L.; Wang, X.; Wang, Q.; Jiang, S.; Cheng, X.; Ning, L.; Qiu, R. (2017). "A new saurolophine hadrosaurid (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) from the Upper Cretaceous of Shandong, China" (PDF). Annals of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-11-16. Retrieved 2017-09-03.
