Arstanosaurus

Arstanosaurus
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,
Juvenile Gadolosauraus skeleton
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Ornithischia
Clade: Ornithopoda
Superfamily: Hadrosauroidea
Genus: Arstanosaurus
Shilin & Suslov, 1982
Species:
A. akkurganensis
Binomial name
Arstanosaurus akkurganensis
Shilin & Suslov, 1982

Arstanosaurus (meaning "Arstan lizard" after the Arstan well) is a genus of hadrosauroid dinosaur from the Santonian-Campanian-age Upper Cretaceous Bostobe Formation, Kazakhstan. It has had a confusing history, being considered both a hadrosaurid and a ceratopsid, or both at the same time (chimeric).

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