Plesiohadros

Extinct genus of dinosaurs From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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]

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Plesiohadros
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, 80–71 Ma
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Ornithischia
Clade: Ornithopoda
Superfamily: Hadrosauroidea
Genus: Plesiohadros
Tsogtbaatar et al., 2014
Type species
Plesiohadros djadokhtaensis
Tsogtbaatar et al., 2014
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Paleoecology

Plesiohadros is the only known hadrosaur from the Alagteeg Formation.

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