Koreanosaurus

 Koreanosaurus (meaning "Korean lizard") is a genus of neornithischian dinosaur. One species has been described, Koreanosaurus boseongensis.

Koreanosaurus
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, Santonian–Campanian 
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Koreanosaurus boseongensis holotype.tif
Holotype specimen, with close up of a rib
Scientific classificationedit
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Clade:Dinosauria
Order:†Ornithischia
Family:†Parksosauridae
Subfamily:†Orodrominae
Genus:†Koreanosaurus
Huh et al., 2011
Species:
†K. boseongensis
Binomial name
†Koreanosaurus boseongensis
Huh et al., 2011

DiscoveryEdit

Restoration

In 2003 three fossils of Koreanosaurus were found in the Late Cretaceous-age Seonso Conglomerate from the southern coast of the Bi-bong Dinosaur Fossil Findspot, Boseong, Korean Peninsula:[1] the holotype KDRC-BB2, a partial skeleton lacking the skull, and the paratypes KDRC-BB1 and KDRC-BB3.[2] The type species is Koreanosaurus boseongensis, after its discovery locality (Boseong site 5). The type species was initially named and described in a master's thesis by Lee Dae-Gil in 2008,[3] and was officially published by Min Huh, Dae-Gil Lee, Jung-Kyun Kim, Jong-Deock Lim and Pascal Godefroit in 2011.[2]

ClassificationEdit

Koreanosaurus was considered to be a basal member of the Ornithopoda by the authors, forming a clade with Zephyrosaurus schaffi, Orodromeus makelai and Oryctodromeuscubicularis from which they deduced a burrowing lifestyle.[2] Han et al. found it plausible that Koreanosaurus might be a member of Jeholosauridae or closely related to it.[4]


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