Aquilarhinus
Extinct genus of dinosaurs / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Aquilarhinus (meaning "eagle snout" after the unusual beak morphology) is a genus of hadrosaurid ornithopod dinosaur from the Aguja Formation from Texas in the United States. The type and only species is Aquilarhinus palimentus. Due to its unusual dentary, it has been inferred to have had shovel-like beak morphology, different from the beaks of other hadrosaurs. It was originally classified as a Kritosaurus sp. before being reclassified as a new genus in 2019.
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | †Ornithischia |
Clade: | †Ornithopoda |
Family: | †Hadrosauridae |
Genus: | †Aquilarhinus Prieto-Márquez, Wagner and Lehman, 2019 |
Species: | †A. palimentus |
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†Aquilarhinus palimentus Prieto-Márquez, Wagner and Lehman, 2019 | |
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