Kerberosaurus manakini
By Jack Wood on @thewoodparable
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Name: Kerberosaurus manakini
Name Meaning: Kerberos Reptile
First Described: 2004
Described By: Bolotsky and Godefroit
Classification: Dinosauria, Ornithischia, Genasauria, Neornithischia, Cerapoda, Ornithopoda, Iguanodontia, Dryomorpha, Ankylopollexia, Styracosterna, Hadrosauriformes, Hadrosauroidea, Hadrosauridae, Saurolophinae, “Anatosauria”, Edmontosaurini?
Kerberosaurus is an interesting Hadrosaur with some confusion surrounding its phylogenetic placement - it could be either a Saurolophin, or an Edmontosaurin, and not much research has been done on the subject either way. It was found in the Tsagayan Formation in Blagoveshchensk, Amur Region, Russia, living in the Maastrichtian age of the Late Cretaceous, approximately 66 million years ago. It was found alongside Amurosaurus, a Lambeosaurine, including many turtles, crocodilians, theropods, and nodosaurids. It is known from some skull material, leading to the naming of the new genus. However, they did not attempt to reconstruct the animal, and if it was a Saurolophin, it would have fairly unlikely implications for biogeography.
Source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerberosaurus
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