Claosaurus
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Claosaurus (/ˌkleɪəˈsɔːrəs/ KLAY-ə-SOR-əs; Greek κλάω, klao meaning 'broken' and σαῦρος, sauros meaning 'lizard'; "broken lizard", referring to the odd position of the fossils when discovered) is a genus of hadrosauroid dinosaur that lived during the Late Cretaceous Period (Santonian-Campanian).[2]
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Claosaurus | |
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Type specimen in the Peabody Museum, with restored skull[1] | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | †Ornithischia |
Clade: | †Ornithopoda |
Clade: | †Hadrosauromorpha |
Genus: | †Claosaurus Marsh, 1890 |
Type species | |
†Hadrosaurus agilis (Marsh, 1872a) Marsh, 1890 | |
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Traditionally classified as an early member of the family Hadrosauridae, a 2008 analysis found Claosaurus agilis to be outside of the clade containing Hadrosaurus and other hadrosaurids, making it the closest non-hadrosaurid relative of true hadrosaurids within the clade Hadrosauria.[3]