Ratchasimasaurus
Ratchasimasaurus | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Order: | †Ornithischia |
Suborder: | †Ornithopoda |
Clade: | †Iguanodontia |
Genus: | †Ratchasimasaurus Shibata, Jintasakul, & Azuma, 2011 |
Type species | |
Ratchasiamsaurus suranaerae Shibata, Jintasakul, & Azuma, 2011 |
Ratchasimasaurus (meaning "Ratchasima lizard") is a genus of non-hadrosaurid iguanodontian ornithopod dinosaur from Early Cretaceous (Aptian stage) Khok Kruat Formation of Nakhon Ratchasima Province in northeastern Thailand. The type and only species is R. suranareae, named after Thao Suranari, a 19th-century war heroine.[1] It was considered by one study to be a nomen dubium, diagnosed with characters widespread in Styracosterna.[2]
Description
One autapomorphy (unique characteristic) of Ratchasimasaurus is its elongated and flat ramus of the dentary. Ratchasimasaurus shows both primitive and derived characters for Iguanodontia, such as "a caudally inclined coronoid process and alveolar trough with a primitive crown impression, and a derived buccal shelf between the tooth row and the coronoid process".[1]
References
- 1 2 Shibata M., Jintasakul P., Azuma Y. (2011). "A new iguanodontian dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous Khok Kruat Formation, Nakhon Ratchasima in northeastern Thailand". Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition). 85 (5): 969–976. doi:10.1111/j.1755-6724.2011.00530.x.
- ↑ https://search.proquest.com/openview/42543b305a3b88729fcee50eb5892a5d/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y
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