Claorhynchus
Extinct genus of dinosaurs / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Claorhynchus (meaning "broken beak", as it is based on broken bones from the snout region) is a dubious genus of cerapodan dinosaur with a confusing history behind it. It has been considered to be both a hadrosaurid and a ceratopsid, sometimes the same as Triceratops, with two different assignments as to discovery formation and location, and what bones make up its type remains.
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Claorhynchus | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | †Ornithischia |
Clade: | †Neornithischia |
Genus: | †Claorhynchus Cope, 1892 |
Species: | †C. trihedrus |
Binomial name | |
†Claorhynchus trihedrus Cope, 1892 | |
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