Amurosaurus
Sign in to saveAmurosaurus (; "Amur lizard") is a genus of lambeosaurine hadrosaurid dinosaur found in Late Cretaceous (70 to 66 million years ago) deposits of what is now eastern Asia.
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Amurosaurus (; "Amur lizard") is a genus of lambeosaurine hadrosaurid dinosaur found in Late Cretaceous (70 to 66 million years ago) deposits of what is now eastern Asia.
==Discovery and naming== thumb|left|Bonebed at Blagoveschensk dinosaur locality Russian paleontologists Yuri Bolotsky and Sergei Kurzanov first described and named this dinosaur in 1991. The generic name is derived from the Amur River and the Greek word sauros ("lizard"). The Amur (called Heilongjiang or "Black Dragon River" in Chinese) forms the border of Russia and China, and is near where this dinosaur's remains were found. There is one known species (A. riabinini), named in honor of the late Russian paleontologist Anatoly Riabinin, who conducted the first Russian expeditions to recover dinosaur remains in the Amur region in 1916 and 1917.