- Fukuisaurus
Taxobox
name = "Fukuisaurus"
fossil_range =Early Cretaceous
regnum =Animal ia
phylum = Chordata
classis =Sauropsida
ordo =Ornithischia
subordo =Ornithopoda
infraordo =Iguanodontia
superfamilia =Hadrosauroidea
genus = "Fukuisaurus"
binomial = "Fukuisaurus tetoriensis"
binomial_authority = Kobayashi & Azuma,2003 "Fukuisaurus" (meaning "Fukui lizard") is a
genus of herbivorousdinosaur from the EarlyCretaceous . It was anornithopod which lived in what is nowJapan . Remains of "Fukuisaurus" (フクイサウルス) were discovered in 1990, inKatsuyama, Fukui Prefecture, in rocks from theKitadani Formation . Thetype species , "Fukuisaurus tetoriensis", was described in 2003 by Yoshitsugu Kobayashi and Yoichi Azuma. The fossils consist of a skull. "Fukuisaurus" was similar to "Iguanodon ", "Ouranosaurus " and "Altirhinus ".References
Kobayashi, Y. and Azuma, Y. (2003). "A new iguanodontian (Dinosauria; Ornithopoda), form the lower Cretaceous Kitadani Formation of Fukui Prefecture, Japan". "Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology" 23(1): 166-175.
External links
* [http://www.dinodata.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6534&Itemid=67 "Fukuisaurus"] from DinoData.org (Contains abstract of original paper describing the genus)
* [http://www.users.qwest.net/~jstweet1/iguanodontia.htm Iguanodontia]
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