[D] Gilmoreosaurus arkhangelskyi [Su]
Describer
Nessov & Kaznyshkina, 1995
Time
Cretaceous Late Turonian Coniacian
Classification
Ornithischia Ornithopoda Hadrosauridae Nomina Dubia
Diet
Herbivore
Fossilsite
Bissekt Formation, Dzharakhuduk, (Dzhira-Khuduk) Central Kyzylkum Desert, Uzbekistan; Tyul\\\\\\\'keli, Kazakhstan
Fall Under
Gilmoreosaurus
Info
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)
Holotype
TsNIGR museum #664/12457, left frontal from upper Turonian or Coniacian, Dzhira-Khuduk, Uzbekistan, lower section of Bissekt Formation (Bissektiyskaya Svita); referred material includes a parietal, braincase, maxilla, dentary, predentary, atlas and epistropheus, vertebrae, sacrum, limb bones and scapulae; species name honors geologist A. D. Arkhangelsky.
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.
G. arkhangelskyi consist out of a variety of non-diagnosable ornithopod, mainly hadrosaurian (indet) remains, taxa erected on this quality of material are apt to cause confusion, but serve to register the existence of more ornithopod remains.
Nessov & Kaznyshkina, 1995
Time
Cretaceous Late Turonian Coniacian
Classification
Ornithischia Ornithopoda Hadrosauridae Nomina Dubia
Diet
Herbivore
Fossilsite
Bissekt Formation, Dzharakhuduk, (Dzhira-Khuduk) Central Kyzylkum Desert, Uzbekistan; Tyul\\\\\\\'keli, Kazakhstan
Fall Under
Gilmoreosaurus
Info
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)
Holotype
TsNIGR museum #664/12457, left frontal from upper Turonian or Coniacian, Dzhira-Khuduk, Uzbekistan, lower section of Bissekt Formation (Bissektiyskaya Svita); referred material includes a parietal, braincase, maxilla, dentary, predentary, atlas and epistropheus, vertebrae, sacrum, limb bones and scapulae; species name honors geologist A. D. Arkhangelsky.
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.
G. arkhangelskyi consist out of a variety of non-diagnosable ornithopod, mainly hadrosaurian (indet) remains, taxa erected on this quality of material are apt to cause confusion, but serve to register the existence of more ornithopod remains.