Levnesovia
Levnesovia Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Order: | †Ornithischia |
Clade: | †Ornithopoda |
Clade: | †Hadrosauromorpha |
Genus: | †Levnesovia Sues and Averianov, 2009 |
Type species | |
Levnesovia transoxiana Sues and Averianov, 2009
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Levnesovia is a genus of hadrosauroid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Bissekty Formation of Uzbekistan.[1] It was related to Bactrosaurus. The type species is L. transoxiana. The genus name honours the late Russian paleontologist , and the specific name refers to the ancient region Transoxiana.[1] It is known from the minority of the skull and would have reached around two meters in length.[2]
See also[]
- Timeline of hadrosaur research
References[]
- ^ a b Hans-Dieter Sues and Alexander Averianov. (2009). "A new basal hadrosauroid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Uzbekistan and the early radiation of duck-billed dinosaurs." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 276(1667): 2549-2555. doi:10.1098/rspb.2009.0229
- ^ Paul, Gregory S. The Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs. Princeton University Press, 2010.
Categories:
- Hadrosaurs
- Turonian life
- Late Cretaceous dinosaurs of Asia
- Fossils of Uzbekistan
- Bissekty Formation
- Fossil taxa described in 2009
- Taxa named by Hans-Dieter Sues
- Ornithischian genera
- Ornithopod stubs