[D] Bactrosaurus kysylkumensis
Describer
Nessov, 1995
Time
Cretaceous Late Turonian Coniacian Santonian
Classification
Ornithischia Ornithopoda Hadrosauridae Lambeosaurinae
Diet
Herbivore
Fossilsite
Bissekt Formation, Dzharakhuduk, Central Kyzylkum Desert, Uzbekistan
Fall Under
Bactrosaurus
Info
Bactrosaurus = Paraiguanodon (Brown vide Olshevsky, 1991) Bactrosaurus (Gilmore, 1933) > Bactrosaurus johnsoni (Gilmore, 1933) > Bactrosaurus kysylkumensis (Nessov, 1995) >> Cionodon kysylkumensis (Riabinin, 1931)
Bactrosaurus kysylkumensis comb. nov. Originally Cionodon kysylkumense Riabinin,1931 (emended to Cionodon kysylkumensis by Weishampel & Horner in The Dinosauria).
Lectotype
TsNIGR museum #1/3760, a dorsal vertebra from upper Turonian or Coniacian, Dzhira-Khuduk, Uzbekistan, Bissekt Formation (Bissektiyskaya Svita); maxilla, vertebrae, and a tooth are also referable to this species. Lambeosauridae (_sic_: called a subfamily in the text)
Other material previously referred to Gilmoreosaurus kysylkumensis, originally Cionodon kysylkumensis Riabinin, 1931; by Nessov, 1989 is removed to Gilmoreosaurus arkhangelskyi.