Kritosaurus horneri Hunt and Lucas 1993 (Anasazi lizard)

Reptilia - Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae

Full reference: A. P. Hunt and S. G. Lucas. 1993. Cretaceous vertebrates of New Mexico. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 2:77-91

Belongs to Kritosaurus according to A. Prieto-Márquez et al. 2016

Sister taxon: Kritosaurus navajovius

Type specimen: BYU 12950, a skull ( a poorly preserved skull includ-ing part of the premaxillae, nasals, right maxilla, lacrimal, jugal, prefrontal, postorbital, squamosal, frontal, parietal, and). Its type locality is Betonnie Tstosie Wash (BYU), which is in a Campanian terrestrial horizon in the Kirtland Formation of New Mexico.

Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Kritosaurus horneri in the database

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