Arstanosaurus

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Arstanosaurus
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, 85–84  Ma
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Ornithischia
Clade: Ornithopoda
Superfamily: Hadrosauroidea
Genus: Arstanosaurus
Shilin & Suslov, 1982
Species:
A. akkurganensis
Binomial name
Arstanosaurus akkurganensis
Shilin & Suslov, 1982

Arstanosaurus (meaning "Arstan lizard" after the Arstan well) is a genus of hadrosauroid dinosaur from the Santonian-Campanian-age Upper Cretaceous Bostobe Formation, Kazakhstan. It has had a confusing history, being considered both a hadrosaurid and a ceratopsid, or both at the same time (chimeric).

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History

The genus was based on a partial left maxilla (holotype AAIZ 1/1 or IZ AN KSSR 1/1), with the lower end of a left femur (AAIZ 1/2) possibly referable. Both were found at Akkurgan-Boltyk near Qyzylorda and were named and described as Arstanosaurus akkurganensis in 1982. [1] This is not much material for naming a new genus, and it was largely ignored until the mid-1990s, when the hypothesis that it was really a ceratopsid appeared. [2] Shortly thereafter, a new revision appeared that showed that the characteristics listed as unusual for Arstanosaurus were really based on perspective, and that the maxilla was from an animal like Bactrosaurus , albeit indeterminate (a dubious name). The femur was uninformative. [3] It was regarded as an indeterminate hadrosaurid in the most recent review. [4]

Diagnostic hadrosauroid remains from the same area have in 2012 been named as Batyrosaurus . [5]

A hadrosauroid from the Bayan Shireh Formation (informally called "Gadolosaurus") has at times been identified as Arstanosaurus, but is clearly a distinct genus. [6] [7] [8]

Paleobiology

As a hadrosaurid, Arstanosaurus would have been a bipedal/quadrupedal herbivore, eating plants with sets of ever-replacing teeth stacked on each other. [4]

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