Heilongjiangosaurus

"Heilongjiangosaurus" (meaning "Heilongjiang Province lizard") is the informal name given to an as-yet undescribed genus of duckbilled dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous. It possibly was a lambeosaurine, and may in fact be the same animal as Charonosaurus. The fossils were found in Maastrichtian-age rocks in Heilongjiang, China. As a nomen nudum, we cannot be certain of what it is supposed to be, but there also appears to be a connection to an obscure species called Mandschurosaurus jiayinensis,[1] named in 1983.[2]

The "type species" is "H. jiayinensis", and it was coined in 2001 in a faunal list by Li and Jin.[3]

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References

  1. ↑ Glut, Donald F. (2003). "Heilongjiangosaurus". Dinosaurs: The Encyclopedia. 3rd Supplement. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc. p. 606. ISBN 0-7864-1166-X.
  2. ↑ George Olshevsky. "Dinosaur Genera List update #180". Retrieved 2007-03-01.
  3. ↑ Weirong, Li; Jidong, Jin (2001). "On the Upper Cretaceous Jiayin Group of Heilongjiang Province, China". In Deng Tao and Wang Yuan (eds.). Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Chinese Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (in Chinese and English). Beijing: China Ocean Press. pp. 65–74.

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