Koshisaurus katsuyama Shibata and Azuma 2015 (ornithopod)

Reptilia - Ornithischia

Full reference: M. Shibata and Y. Azuma. 2015. New basal hadrosauroid (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) from the Lower Cretaceous Kitadani Formation, Fukui, central Japan. Zootaxa 3914(4):421-440

Belongs to Koshisaurus according to M. Shibata and Y. Azuma 2015

See also Hattori et al. 2021, Sano and Yabe 2017 and Suzuki et al. 2015

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: FPDM-V9079, a maxilla (right maxilla). Its type locality is Kitadani Dinosaur Quarry (middle, BB IV), which is in an Aptian terrestrial sandstone in the Kitadani Formation of Japan.

Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore

Distribution: found only at Kitadani Dinosaur Quarry (middle, BB IV)

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