[D] Gilmoreosaurus mongoliensis [Su] [T]
Describer
Gilmore, 1933
Time
Cretaceous Late ?Cenomanian Turonian Coniacian Santonian Campanian ?Maastrichtian
Classification
Ornithischia Ornithopoda Hadrosauridae
Diet
Herbivore
Fossilsite
Iren Dabasu Formation, Nei Mongol Zizhiqu, China
Fall Under
Gilmoreosaurus
Info
Typespecies - 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)
Isolated skull material, associated disarticulated postcrania, at least 8 individuals.
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.