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Mandschurosaurus amurensis

Reptilia - Hadrosauridae

Taxonomy
Trachodon amurense was named by Riabinin (1925). It is not a trace fossil. Its type locality is Jiayin, which is in a Maastrichtian floodplain sandstone/mudstone in the Yuliangzi Formation of China.

It was recombined as Mandschurosaurus amurensis by Riabinin (1930), Gilmore (1933), Young (1935), Chow (1951), Yuryev (1954), Young (1958), Kobayashi (1959), Tatarinov (1964), Kuhn (1964), Rozhdestvensky (1977), Weishampel and Weishampel (1983), Matsukawa and Obata (1994), Norman and Sues (2000), Dong (2008), Wu et al. (2010) and Sun et al. (2011); it was recombined as Manchurosaurus amurensis by Nagao (1936); it was misspelled as Manchurosaurus amurensis by Young (1944); it was considered a nomen dubium by Weishampel and Horner (1990), Godefroit (2000), Godefroit et al. (2000), Horner et al. (2004), Godefroit et al. (2011) and Godefroit et al. (2012).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1925Trachodon amurense Riabinin
1927Trachodon amurense Huene p. 272
1930Mandschurosaurus amurensis Riabinin p. 15
1933Mandschurosaurus amurensis Gilmore p. 41
1935Mandschurosaurus amurensis Young
1936Manchurosaurus amurensis Nagao p. 185
1944Manchurosaurus amurensis Young p. 202
1951Mandschurosaurus amurensis Chow p. 93
1954Mandschurosaurus amurensis Yuryev p. 192
1958Mandschurosaurus amurensis Young pp. 107-108
1959Mandschurosaurus amurensis Kobayashi p. 390
1964Mandschurosaurus amurensis Kuhn p. 23
1964Mandschurosaurus amurensis Tatarinov p. 569
1977Mandschurosaurus amurensis Rozhdestvensky p. 113
1983Mandschurosaurus amurensis Weishampel and Weishampel p. 44
1994Mandschurosaurus amurensis Matsukawa and Obata p. 113
2000Mandschurosaurus amurensis Norman and Sues p. 472
2008Mandschurosaurus amurensis Dong p. 6
2010Mandschurosaurus amurensis Wu et al.
2011Mandschurosaurus amurensis Sun et al. p. 125

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
Romeriida
Diapsida()
Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
RankNameAuthor
Crocopoda
ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
Eucrocopoda
Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
Ornithodira
Dinosauromorpha
Dinosauriformes
Dinosauria()
Ornithischia()
Genasauria
Cerapoda
Ornithopoda()
Clypeodonta
Iguanodontia()
Dryomorpha
Styracosterna
Hadrosauriformes
Hadrosauroidea()
familyHadrosauridae
subfamilyHadrosaurinaeLambe 1918
genusMandschurosaurus
speciesamurensis(Riabinin 1925)

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Mandschurosaurus amurensis Riabinin 1925
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: hydroxyapatiteo
Entire body: yeso
Adult length: 10 to < 100o
Adult width: 1.0 to < 10o
Adult height: 1.0 to < 10o
Architecture: compact or denseo
Ontogeny: accretion, modification of partso
Grouping: gregariouso
Environment: terrestrialo
Locomotion: actively mobileo
Life habit: ground dwellingo
Diet: herbivoresubo
Reproduction: oviparouso
Dispersal: direct/internalo
Dispersal 2: mobileo
Created: 2009-01-03 20:40:05
Modified: 2009-01-03 22:40:05
Source: subo = suborder, o = order
References: Marsh 1875, Benton 1983

Age range: Maastrichtian or 72.10000 to 66.00000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Maastrichtian72.1 - 66.0China (Heilongjiang) Trachodontidae indet. (type locality: 37811)