Levnesovia

Levnesovia
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Clade:Dinosauria
Order:Ornithischia
Suborder:Ornithopoda
Clade:Hadrosauromorpha
Genus:Levnesovia
Sues and Averianov, 2009
Type species
Levnesovia transoxiana
Sues and Averianov, 2009

Levnesovia is a genus of hadrosauroid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Uzbekistan. It was related to Bactrosaurus. The type species is L. transoxiana. The genus name honours the late Russian paleontologist Lev Nesov, and the specific name refers to the ancient region Transoxiana.[1] It is known from the minority of the skull and would have reached around two meters in length.[2]

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References

  1. Hans-Dieter Sues and Alexander Averianov. (2009). "A new basal hadrosauroid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Uzbekistan and the early radiation of duck-billed dinosaurs." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 276(1667): 2549-2555. doi:10.1098/rspb.2009.0229
  2. Paul, Gregory S. The Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs. Princeton University Press, 2010.




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