Kamuysaurus
Sign in to saveKamuysaurus is a genus of herbivorous edmontosaurin saurolophine hadrosaurid dinosaur from Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) marine deposits of the Yezo Group (Hakobuchi Formation) in the Hobetsu area near the town of Mukawa, Hokkaido in Japan.
Wikidata facts
- Parent taxon
- Hadrosaurinae
- Named after
- Kamuy
- Image
- Mukawaryu NT2.png
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- taxon rank
- genus
- taxon name
- Kamuysaurus
- Commons category
- Kamuysaurus
- type locality (biology)
- Hobetsu
- time of discovery or invention
- 2003-04-09
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Kamuysaurus is a genus of herbivorous edmontosaurin saurolophine hadrosaurid dinosaur from Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) marine deposits of the Yezo Group (Hakobuchi Formation) in the Hobetsu area near the town of Mukawa, Hokkaido in Japan.
==Discovery== thumb|left|Skull elements In 2003, amateur paleontologist Yoshiyuki Horita at the Shirafunezawa Creek discovered the tail of a euornithopod. An entire skeleton was in 2013 and 2014 uncovered by teams of the Hobetsu Museum and the Hokkaido University Museum. The find was nicknamed Mukawaryu, the "Dragon of Mukawa".
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