Kamuysaurus
Field photograph to come
Kamuysaurus
DV-1063 · type species Kamuysaurus japonicus
- Lived
- 72 to 66 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ornithopods, Hadrosauridae
- Found in
- Japan
- Named by
- Kobayashi et al. 2019
Field notes
About Kamuysaurus
Kamuysaurus was a plant-eating ornithopod that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 72 to 66 million years ago. It belongs to the family Hadrosauridae.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Kamuysaurus, from Japan. Its fossils come from the Hakobuchi Formation. It was named by Kobayashi et al. in 2019.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
70 million years ago
Close relatives
Other members of Hadrosauridae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: Y. Kobayashi, T. Nishimura, and R. Takasaki, K. Chiba, A. R. Fiorillo, K. Tanaka, T. Chinzorig, T. Sato, K. Sakurai. 2019. A new hadrosaurine (Dinosauria: Hadrosauridae) from the marine deposits of the Late Cretaceous Hakobuchi Formation, Yezo Group, Japan. Scientific Reports 9:12389