Maleevus

Maleevus
Maleevus
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, 90 Ma
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Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Superorder: Dinosauria
Order: Ornithischia
Suborder: Ankylosauria
Genus: Maleevus
Tumanova (1987)
Species: M. disparoserratus
Binomial name
Maleevus disparoserratus

Maleevus is a genus of ankylosaurid dinosaur that is known only from the jawbone and part of the skull discovered in 1952 by Soviet palaeontologist Evgenii Aleksandrovich Maleev. It has been estimated that Maleevus was about 6 meters (19.5 feet) long. It is also believed that the fossils came from the late Cretaceous, around 90 million years ago.

The bone fragments, uncovered in Mongolia, are so similar to fossils of another Mongolian ankylosaur, Talarurus, that many palaeontologists believe that Maleevus is another species of the Talarurus genus. Soviet palaeontologist Turmanova named Maleevus after Maleev in 1987. The type species is M. disparoserratus.

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