Gobihadros
Sign in to saveGobihadros is a genus of basal hadrosauroid dinosaur that lived during the Late Cretaceous period in what is now the Bayanshiree Formation (dated to the Cenomanian-Santonian) of Mongolia. It contains only the type species Gobihadros mongoliensis, which has an estimated length of .
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Gobihadros is a genus of basal hadrosauroid dinosaur that lived during the Late Cretaceous period in what is now the Bayanshiree Formation (dated to the Cenomanian-Santonian) of Mongolia. It contains only the type species Gobihadros mongoliensis, which has an estimated length of .
==Discovery and naming== thumb|left|Fossil localities in Mongolia. Gobihadros is mainly known from C and D areas Between 1993 and 2004, the Mongolian Palaeontological Center and the Japanese Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences excavated sites at Bayshin Tsav. Material was discovered of a basal hadrosauroid new to science. Tsogtbaatar treated this species in his dissertation of 2008.