Amurosaurus
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Amurosaurus (/əˌmʊərəˈsɔːrəs/; "Amur lizard") is a genus of lambeosaurine hadrosaurid dinosaur found in the latest Cretaceous period (66 million years ago)[1] of eastern Asia. Fossil bones of adults are rare, but an adult would most likely have been at least 6 metres (20 ft) long. According to Gregory S. Paul, it was about 8 metres (26 ft) long and weighed about 3,000 kilograms (6,600 lb).[2]
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Replica skeleton, Brussels | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | †Ornithischia |
Clade: | †Ornithopoda |
Family: | †Hadrosauridae |
Clade: | †Euhadrosauria |
Subfamily: | †Lambeosaurinae |
Genus: | †Amurosaurus Bolotsky & Kurzanov, 1991 |
Species: | †A. riabinini |
Binomial name | |
†Amurosaurus riabinini Bolotsky & Kurzanov, 1991 | |
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