Describer

Brett-Surman, 1979

Time

Cretaceous Early Cretaceous Late ?Albian Cenomanian Turonian Coniacian Santonian Campanian ? Maastrichtian

Classification

Ornithischia Ornithopoda Hadrosauridae

Diet

Herbivore

Fossilsite

China, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan

Typespecies

Gilmoreosaurus mongoliensis

Info

Genus - Skull

Gilmoreosaurus (Brett-Surman, 1979) > Gilmoreosaurus mongoliensis (Gilmore, 1933) = Mandschurosaurus mongoliensis (Gilmore, 1933)

Gilmoreosaurus > Gilmoreosaurus arkhangelskyi (Nessov & Kaznyshkina, 1995) >> Gilmoreosaurus kysylkumensis (Nessov, 1989) >>> Cionodon kysylkumensis (Riabinin, 1931) > Gilmoreosaurus xilingolensis (Anonymus, 2006)

\\\\\\\"Gilmore\\\\\\\'s lizard\\\\\\\" Charles Whitney Gilmore (1874-1945), American vertebrate paleontologist originally described the flat-headed hadrosaur specimen as \\\\\\\"Mandschurosaurus\\\\\\\"mongoliensis.

Other skull material previously referred to Gilmoreosaurus kysylkumensis, (Nessov, 1989) originally Cionodon kysylkumensis, (Riabinin, 1931), is removed to Gilmoreosaurus arkhangelskyi, and is no longer considered part of Cionodon (or Gilmoreosaurus kysylkumensis). The assigenment of this material to the lambeosaurine genus Bactrosaurus by Nessov, 1995 is in dispute.