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Nanyangosaurus
Fossil range: Early Cretaceous
Nanyangosaurus dinosaur
Scientific classification

Kingdom:

Animalia

Phylum:

Chordata

Class:

Sauropsida

Superorder:

Dinosauria

Order:

Ornithischia

Suborder:

Ornithopoda

Infraorder:

Iguanodontia

Superfamily:

Hadrosauroidea

Genus:

Nanyangosaurus
Xu et al., 2000

Species:

Nanyangosaurus is the name given to a genus of dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous. It was an iguanodont which lived in present-day China. The type species, Nanyangosaurus zhugeii, was described by Xu, Zhao, Lu, Huang, Li, and Dong in 2000. Nanyangosaurus was a hadrosauroid, an advanced iguanodont ancestral to true hadrosaurs.

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