Describer

Wiman, 1929

Time

Cretaceous Late Coniacian Santonian Campanian ?Maastrichtian

Classification

Ornithischia Ornithopoda Hadrosauridae Hadrosaurinae

Diet

Herbivore

Fossilsite

China, Kazakhstan

Typespecies

Tanius sinensis

Info

Genus - Skull

Tanius (Wiman, 1929) > Tanius sinensis (Wiman, 1929) > Tanius prynadai (Riabinin, 1939) >> Bactrosaurus prynadai (Riabinin, 1939)

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