Nipponosaurus sachalinensis Nagao 1936 (lambeosaurine)

Reptilia - Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae

Alternative combination: Nipponosaurus sachaliensis

Full reference: T. Nagao. 1936. Nipponosaurus sachalinensis: a new genus and species of trachodont dinosaur from Japanese Saghalien. Journal of the Faculty of Science, Hokkaido Imperial University, series 4, Geology and Mineralogy 3(2):185-220

Belongs to Nipponosaurus according to J. R. Horner et al. 2004

See also Cruzado-Caballero and Powell 2017, Dalla Vecchia 2020, Dong 2008, Evans 2010, Evans and Reisz 2007, Godefroit et al. 2008, Hoffet 1943, Kuhn 1964, Lund and Gates 2006, Maryanska and Osmólska 1981, Matsukawa and Obata 1994, Nagao 1936, Nagao 1938, Nagao 1939, Norman and Sues 2000, Ohashi et al. 2015, Prieto-Márquez 2010, Rozhdestvensky 1977, Sullivan et al. 2011, Suzuki et al. 2004, Tatarinov 1964, Weishampel and Horner 1990, Weishampel and Weishampel 1983, Xing et al. 2014 and Young 1958

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: UHR 6590, a partial skeleton. Its type locality is Kawakami Colliery, Sakhalin, which is in a Santonian/Campanian marginal marine mudstone in the Russian Federation.

Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore

Distribution: found only at Kawakami Colliery, Sakhalin

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