Laiyangosaurus

Name: Laiyangosaurus ‭(‬Laiyang lizard‭)‬.
Phonetic: Lay-yang-o-sor-us.
Named By: J.‭ ‬L.‭ ‬Zhang,‭ ‬X.‭ ‬Wang,‭ ‬Q.‭ ‬Wang,‭ ‬S.‭ ‬Jiang,‭ ‬X.‭ ‬Cheng,‭ ‬L.‭ ‬Ning‭ & ‬R.‭ ‬Qiu‭ ‬-‭ ‬2017.
Classification: Chordata,‭ ‬Reptilia,‭ ‬Dinosauria,‭ ‬Ornithischia,‭ ‬Hadrosauridae,‭ ‬Saurolophinae,‭ ‬Edmontosaurini.
Species: L.‭ ‬youngi‭ (‬type‭)‬.
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Unavailable due to lack of‭ ‬remains.
Known locations: China,‭ ‬Shandong Province.
Time period: Late Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Skull remains.

       Laiyangosaurus is a genus of hadrosaurid dinosaur that lived in Asia during the late Cretaceous.

Further reading
-‭ ‬A new saurolophine hadrosaurid‭ (‬Dinosauria:‭ ‬Ornithopoda‭) ‬from the Upper Cretaceous of Shandong,‭ ‬China‭" (‬PDF‭)‬.‭ ‬Annals of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences.‭ ‬-‭ ‬J.‭ ‬L.‭ ‬Zhang,‭ ‬X.‭ ‬Wang,‭ ‬Q.‭ ‬Wang,‭ ‬S.‭ ‬Jiang,‭ ‬X.‭ ‬Cheng,‭ ‬L.‭ ‬Ning‭ & ‬R.‭ ‬Qiu‭ ‬-‭ ‬2017.
-‭ ‬Osteological Re‭‐‬assessment and Taxonomic Revision of‭ "‬Tanius laiyangensis' ‭(‬Ornithischia:‭ ‬Hadrosauroidea‭) ‬from the Upper Cretaceous of Shandong,‭ ‬China.‭ ‬-‭ ‬The Anatomical Record.‭ ‬doi:10.1002/ar.24097.‭ ‬-‭ ‬Yu-Guang Zhang,‭ ‬Ke-Bau Wang,‭ ‬Shu-Qing Chen,‭ ‬Di Liu‭ & ‬Hai Xing‭ ‬-‭ ‬2019.



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