Plesiohadros
Extinct genus of dinosaurs
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Plesiohadros (meaning "near to hadrosaurids") is an extinct genus of hadrosauroid dinosaur. It is known from a partial skeleton including the skull collected at Alag Teg locality, from the Campanian Alagteeg Formation of southern Mongolia. The type species is Plesiohadros djadokhtaensis.[1][2]
| Plesiohadros Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | †Ornithischia |
| Clade: | †Ornithopoda |
| Superfamily: | †Hadrosauroidea |
| Genus: | †Plesiohadros Tsogtbaatar et al., 2014 |
| Type species | |
| Plesiohadros djadokhtaensis Tsogtbaatar et al., 2014 | |
Paleoecology
Plesiohadros is the only known hadrosaur from the Alagteeg Formation.
