Genus
Valid Extinct

Mandschurosaurus

Riabinin 1930

Mandschurosaurus is an extinct genus of hadrosaurids based on material from the Late Cretaceous of China and possibly also the Early Cretaceous of Laos. It was the first dinosaur genus named from China.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
3
Group
Dinosaures
Herbivore Ground dwelling, gregarious Terrestrial
Mandschurosaurus
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Mandschurosaurus amurensis holotype © Anatoliy Riabinin · Public domain · Wikimedia
Mandschurosaurus
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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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Hadrosaurinae Subfamily
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Mandschurosaurus Genus
Fossil sites 3 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇱🇦 Laos
2
🇨🇳 China
1
Geological formations
Grès supérieurs
2
Yuliangzi
1
Temporal distribution
Maastrichtian (72.2–66 Ma)
1
Albian (113.2–100.5 Ma)
2
Species (2)
Mandschurosaurus amurensis 72 Ma
Mandschurosaurus laosensis nomen dubium, species not entered Mandschurosaurus 121 Ma
Synonyms (1)
Mandschurosaurus laosensis nomen dubium, species not entered Mandschurosaurus
Images 2
Bibliography
Original description
A. N. Riabinin. 1930. Mandschurosaurus amurensis nov. gen. nov. sp., verkhnemelovoy dinozavr s. r. Amura [Mandschurosaurus amurensis nov. gen, nov. sp., a hadrosaurian dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of the Amur River]. Monografii Russkogo Paleontologicheskogo Obshchestva 2:1-36
Bibliography (2)
P. Godefroit, Y. L. Bolotsky, and J. Van Itterbeeck. 2004. The lambeosaurine dinosaur Amurosaurus riabinini, from the Maastrichtian of Far Eastern Russia. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 49(4):575-618
J.-H. Hoffet. 1943. Description des ossements les plus caractéristiques appartenant à des Avipelviens du Sénonien du Bas-Laos [Description of the most characteristic bones belonging to bird-hipped dinosaurs from the Senonian of Lower Laos]. Comptes Rendus des Séances du Conseil des Recherches Scientifiques de l'Indochine 1944:179-186