Plesiohadros

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]

Plesiohadros Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, 80–75 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Clade:	Dinosauria
Clade:	†Ornithischia
Clade:	†Neornithischia
Clade:	†Ornithopoda
Superfamily:	†Hadrosauroidea
Genus:	†Plesiohadros Tsogtbaatar et al., 2014
Type species
Plesiohadros djadokhtaensis Tsogtbaatar et al., 2014

Paleoecology

Plesiohadros is the only known hadrosaur from the Alagteeg Formation.

References

1. 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.
2. 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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