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Osmakasaurus
Temporal range: Early Cretaceous, 137 MaScientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Reptilia Superorder: Dinosauria Order: †Ornithischia Suborder: †Ornithopoda Genus: †Osmakasaurus
McDonald, 2011Species: †O. depressus Binomial name Osmakasaurus depressus
(Gilmore, 1909Synonyms Camptosaurus depressus Gilmore, 1909
Planicoxa depressa Carpenter & Wilson, 2008Osmakasaurus is a genus of herbivorous iguanodontian dinosaur. It is a basal iguanodontian which lived during the lower Cretaceous period (Valanginian age) in what is now Buffalo Gap of South Dakota, USA. It is known from the Chilson Member of the Lakota Formation. This genus was named by Andrew T. McDonald in 2011 and the type species is Osmakasaurus depressus. O. depressus was previously referred to as Camptosaurus depressus, and was first described in 1909 by Charles W. Gilmore.[1]
References
- ^ Andrew T. McDonald (2011). "The taxonomy of species assigned to Camptosaurus (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda)". Zootaxa 2783: 52–68. http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2011/f/z02783p068f.pdf.
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