Shamosaurus
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- Parent taxon
- Ankylosauridae
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- taxon rank
- genus
- taxon name
- Shamosaurus
- time period
- Early Cretaceous
- location of discovery
- Mongolia
- main food source
- herbivore
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Shamosaurus is an extinct genus of herbivorous basal ankylosaurid ankylosaur from Early Cretaceous (Aptian to Albian stage) deposits of Höövör, Mongolia.
==Discovery and naming== In 1977, a Soviet-Mongolian expedition discovered the skeleton of an unknown ankylosaurian at the Hamrin-Us site in Dornogovi Province. This was the first discovery of an ankylosaur in the Lower Cretaceous of Mongolia.
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