Amtosaurus

Amtosaurus
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, 90 Ma
Skull
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Superorder: Dinosauria
Order: Ornithischia
Genus: Amtosaurus
Kurzanov & Tumanova, 1978
Species
  • A. magnus Kurzanov & Tumanova, 1978 (type)

Amtosaurus (/ˌɑːmtˈsɔːrəs/; Kurzanov & Tumanova, 1978) is a genus of ornithischian dinosaur based on a fragmentary skull collected from the Upper Cretaceous Bayanshiree Svita Formation (Cenomanian-Santonian) of Mongolia and originally believed to represent an ankylosaurid. Hadrosaurid affinities have also been suggested. However, per Parish and Barrett, this specimen is too fragmentary to be reliably classified beyond an indeterminate ornithischian. A second species assigned to the genus, A. archibaldi, has become the basis of a valid ankylosaurid taxon, Bissektipelta.[1]

References

  1. Parish, Jolyon; Barrett, Paul (2004). "A reappraisal of the ornithischian dinosaur Amtosaurus magnus Kurzanov and Tumanova 1978, with comments on the status of A. archibaldi Averianov 2002". Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 41 (3): 299–306. doi:10.1139/e03-101.
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