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Extinct genus of dinosaurs / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wannanosaurus (meaning "Wannan lizard", named after the location where it was discovered) is a genus of basal pachycephalosaurian dinosaur from the Maastrichtian Upper Cretaceous Xiaoyan Formation, about 70 million years ago (mya) in what is now Anhui, China. The type species, Wannanosaurus yansiensis, was described by Hou Lian-Hai in 1977.[2]
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Holotype skull, Paleozoological Museum of China | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | †Ornithischia |
Clade: | †Cerapoda |
Clade: | †Marginocephalia |
Clade: | †Pachycephalosauria |
Genus: | †Wannanosaurus Hou, 1977 |
Species: | †W. yansiensis |
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†Wannanosaurus yansiensis Hou, 1977 | |
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