Kerberosaurus

Kerberosaurus
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, 66 Ma
Life restoration
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Ornithischia
Clade: Ornithopoda
Family: Hadrosauridae
Subfamily: Saurolophinae
Genus: Kerberosaurus
Bolotsky and Godefroit, 2004
Species:
K. manakini
Binomial name
Kerberosaurus manakini
Bolotsky & Godefroit, 2004
Synonyms

Kerberosaurus (meaning "Kerberos lizard") was a genus of saurolophine duckbill dinosaur from the late Maastrichtian-age Upper Cretaceous Tsagayan Formation of Blagoveshchensk, Amur Region, Russia (dated to 66 million years ago).[2] It is based on bonebed material including skull remains indicating that it was related to Saurolophus and Prosaurolophus.

  1. ^ Xing, Hai; Zhao, Xijin; Wang, Kebai; Li, Dunjing; Chen, Shuqing; Mallon, Jordan C; Zhang, Yanxia; Xu, Xing (2014). "Comparative osteology and phylogenetic relationship of Edmontosaurus and Shantungosaurus (Dinosauria: Hadrosauridae) from the Upper Cretaceous of North America and East Asia". Acta Geologica Sinica - English Edition. 88 (6): 1623–1652. Bibcode:2014AcGlS..88.1623X. doi:10.1111/1755-6724.12334.
  2. ^ Godefroit, P., Lauters, P., Van Itterbeeck, J., Bolotsky, Y. and Bolotsky, I.Y. (2011). "Recent advances on study of hadrosaurid dinosaurs in Heilongjiang (Amur) River area between China and Russia." Global Geology, 2011(3).

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