Heilongjiangosaurus

"Heilongjiangosaurus" (meaning "Heilongjiang Province lizard") is the informal name given to an as-yet undescribed genus of duckbilled dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous. It possibly was a lambeosaurine, and may in fact be the same animal as "Charonosaurus". The fossils were found in Maastrichtian-age rocks in Heilongjiang, China. As a "nomen nudum", we cannot be certain of what it is supposed to be, but there also appears to be a connection to an obscure species called "Mandschurosaurus jiayinensis",cite book |last=Glut |first= Donald F. |title=Dinosaurs: The Encyclopedia. 3rd Supplement |year=2003 |publisher=McFarland & Company, Inc. |location=Jefferson, North Carolina |isbn=0-7864-1166-X |pages=606 |chapter=Heilongjiangosaurus ] named in 1983.cite web |author=George Olshevsky |url=http://dml.cmnh.org/2001Dec/msg00250.html |title=Dinosaur Genera List update #180 |accessdate=2007-03-01 ]

The "type species" is "H. jiayinensis", and it was coined in 2001 in a faunal list by Li and Jin.cite book |last=Weirong |first=Li |coauthors=and Jidong, Jin |editor=Deng Tao and Wang Yuan (eds.) |title=Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Chinese Society of Vertebrate Paleontology |year=2001 |publisher=China Ocean Press |location=Beijing |language=Chinese with English abstract |pages=65-74 |chapter=On the Upper Cretaceous Jiayin Group of Heilongjiang Province, China ]

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* [http://dml.cmnh.org/2004Dec/msg00090.html Additional Dinosaur Mailing List commentary.]