- Tanius
Taxobox
name = "Tanius"
fossil_range =Late Cretaceous
regnum =Animal ia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Sauropsida
superordo = Dinosauria
ordo =Ornithischia
subordo =Ornithopoda
infraordo =Iguanodont ia
superfamilia =Hadrosauroidea
familia =Hadrosauridae
subfamilia =Hadrosaurinae
genus = "Tanius"
genus_authority = Wiman, 1929
subdivision_ranks=Species
subdivision=
*"T. sinensis" Wiman, 1929 (type)"Tanius" (meaning "of the Tan") is a
genus ofhadrosaurid dinosaur . It lived in the LateCretaceous of thePeople's Republic of China . Thetype species , described in 1929 byCarl Wiman , is "T. sinensis". Other species originally assigned to "Tanius" have been moved to other genera, including "Bactrosaurus " and "Tsintaosaurus ".References
* Wiman, C. (1929). "Die Kreide-Dinosaurier aus Shantung" "Palaeontologia Sinica", Series C 6(1):1-67.
External links
* [http://www.dinoruss.com/de_4/5a7a870.htm "Tanius" in The Dinosaur Encyclopaedia] at Dino Russ's Lair
* [http://www.nhm.ac.uk/jdsml/nature-online/dino-directory/detail.dsml?Genus=Tanius "Tanius" in the Dino Directory]
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