Genus
Valid Extinct

Kangnasaurus

Haughton 1915

Kangnasaurus is a genus of elasmarian ornithopod dinosaur found in Late Cretaceous rocks of South Africa. It is known from a tooth and possibly some postcranial remains dating between the middle-Campanian to Maastrichtian Kalahari Deposits Formation.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
1
Group
Dinosaures
Herbivore Ground dwelling, gregarious Terrestrial
Kangnasaurus
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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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Elasmaria Unranked clade
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Kangnasaurus Genus
Fossil sites 1 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇿🇦 South Africa
1
Temporal distribution
Campanian (83.6–72.2 Ma)
1
Species (1)
Kangnasaurus coetzeei 101 Ma
Images 1
Bibliography
Original description
S. H. Haughton. 1915. On some dinosaur remains from Bushmanland. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa 5(1):259-264 DOI ↗
Bibliography (1)
S. H. Haughton. 1915. On some dinosaur remains from Bushmanland. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa 5(1):259-264 DOI ↗