Amtosaurus

Amtosaurus
	Skull
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Superorder:	Dinosauria
Order:	Ornithischia
Genus:	Amtosaurus; Kurzanov & Tumanova, 1978
Species
	A. magnus Kurzanov & Tumanova, 1978 (type);

Dubious as a Deinodon!

This article belongs to a doubtful taxon, and may not exist! Please read with caution as it may be inaccurate information.

Amtosaurus (Kurzanov & Tumanova, 1978) is an dubious genus of ornithischian dinosaur based on a fragmentary skull collected from the Upper Cretaceous Bayanshiree Svita Formation (Cenomanian-Santonian) of Mongolia and originally believed to represent an ankylosaurid. Hadrosaurid affinities have also been suggested. However, per Parish and Barrett, this specimen is too fragmentary to be reliably classified beyond an indeterminate ornithischian. A second species assigned to the genus, A. archibaldi, has become the basis of a valid ankylosaurid taxon, Bissektipelta.

References[]

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↑ Parish, Jolyon (2004). "A reappraisal of the ornithischian dinosaur Amtosaurus magnus Kurzanov and Tumanova 1978, with comments on the status of A. archibaldi Averianov 2002". Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 41 (3): 299–306. DOI:10.1139/e03-101.

Kurzanov, S. M., & Tumanova, T. A. 1978. [On the structure on the endocranium in some ankylosaurs from Mongolia]. Paleontol. Zh. 1978:90-96.

[PB04-1] Parish, Jolyon (2004). "A reappraisal of the ornithischian dinosaur Amtosaurus magnus Kurzanov and Tumanova 1978, with comments on the status of A. archibaldi Averianov 2002". Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 41 (3): 299–306. DOI:10.1139/e03-101.

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