Maleevus
Name: Maleevus
(named after the palaeontologist Evgenii Aleksandrovich Maleev).
Phonetic: Ma-lee-vus.
Named By: Tumanova - 1987.
Synonyms: Syrmosaurus disparoserratus
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia, Dinosauria,
Onithischia, Thyreophora, Ankylosauria.
Species: M. disparoserratus
(type).
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Unknown but possibly about 6 meters long.
Known locations: Mongolia - Bayan Shireh
Formation.
Time period: Campanian of the Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Mandible (jaw bone) and
part of the skull.
Named after the Russian palaeontologist Evgenii Aleksandrovich who actually found the holotype material in 1952, Maleevus is today considered to be a dubious genus of dinosaur. This is because it is based upon only a small amount of fossil material which is actually similar to another genus of ankylosaur from the Bayan Shireh Formation, Telarurus.
Further reading
- The armored dinosaurs of Mongolia [in Russian], - Tumanova
-
1987.
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