Sahaliyania

Taxobox
name = "Sahaliyania"


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fossil_range=Late Cretaceous
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Sauropsida
superordo = Dinosauria
ordo = Ornithischia
familia = Hadrosauridae
subfamilia=Lambeosaurinae
genus = "Sahaliyania"
genus_authority= Godefroit "et al.", 2008
subdivision_ranks=Species
subdivision=
*"S. elunchunorum" Godefroit "et al.", 2008 (type)

"Sahaliyania" (from "black" in Manchu, a reference to the Amur/Heilongjiang River) is a genus of lambeosaurine hadrosaurid dinosaur (crested duckbilled dinosaur) from the Late Cretaceous of Heilongjiang, China. Its remains were found in a bonebed in the Maastrichtian-age Yuliangze Formation, alongside rarer remains of the hadrosaurine hadrosaurid (flat-headed duckbill) "Wulagasaurus". "Sahaliyania" was named by Pascal Godefroit and colleagues in 2008. It is one of several hadrosaurids from the Amur River region named since 2000. The type and only species to date is "S. elunchunorum", named in honor of the Elunchun people.cite journal |last=Godefroit |first=Pascal |coauthors=Hai Shulin; Yu Tingxiang; and Lauters, Pascaline |year=2008 |title=New hadrosaurid dinosaurs from the uppermost Cretaceous of north−eastern China |journal=Acta Palaeontologica Polonica |volume=53 |issue=1 |pages=47–74 |url=http://www.app.pan.pl/acta53/app53-047.pdf |format=pdf]

"Sahaliyania" is based on GMH W453, a partial skull. Godefroit and colleagues assigned numerous other fossils from the bonebed to their new genus, representing much of the skull, pectoral girdle, upper arm, and pelvis. It can be distinguished from other hadrosaurids by a variety of anatomical details. Godefroit and colleagues performed a phylogenetic analysis that places "Sahaliyania" as a lambeosaurine of uncertain relationships. As a hadrosaurid, "Sahaliyania" would have been an herbivore.cite book |last=Horner |first=John R. |authorlink=Jack Horner (paleontologist) |coauthors=Weishampel, David B.; and Forster, Catherine A |editor=Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.)|title=The Dinosauria |edition=2nd |year= 2004|publisher=University of California Press |location=Berkeley |isbn=0-520-24209-2 |pages=438–463 |chapter=Hadrosauridae ]

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