Genus
Valid Extinct

Laiyangosaurus

Zhang et al. 2019

Laiyangosaurus is a genus of saurolophine hadrosaurid from the Late Cretaceous Jingangkou Formation of China. It is known from one species, L. youngi, found in the Laiyang Basin within the province of Shandong.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
1
Group
Dinosaures
Herbivore Ground dwelling, gregarious Terrestrial
Laiyangosaurus
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Life reconstruction of Laiyangosaurus youngi © Connor Ashbridge · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia
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Classification
Dinosauria Unranked clade
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Ornithischia Unranked clade
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Neornithischia Unranked clade
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Pyrodontia Unranked clade
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Cerapoda Unranked clade
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Ornithopoda Suborder
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Iguanodontia Infraorder
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Euiguanodontia Unranked clade
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Dryomorpha Unranked clade
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Ankylopollexia Unranked clade
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Styracosterna Unranked clade
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Hadrosauriformes Unranked clade
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Hadrosauroidea Unranked clade
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Hadrosauridae Family
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Saurolophinae Subfamily
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Laiyangosaurus Genus
Fossil sites 1 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇨🇳 China
1
Geological formations
Jingangkou
1
Temporal distribution
Campanian (83.6–72.2 Ma)
1
Species (1)
Laiyangosaurus youngi 84 Ma
Images 1
Bibliography
Original description
J.-L. Zhang, X.-L. Wang, and Q. Wang, S.-X. Jiang, X. Cheng, N. Li, R. Qiu. 2019. A new saurolophine hadrosaurid (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) from the Upper Cretaceous of Shandong, China. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 91(2):e20160920 DOI ↗
Bibliography (1)
J.-L. Zhang, X.-L. Wang, and Q. Wang, S.-X. Jiang, X. Cheng, N. Li, R. Qiu. 2019. A new saurolophine hadrosaurid (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) from the Upper Cretaceous of Shandong, China. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 91(2):e20160920 DOI ↗