Levnesovia

Lev Nesov's (animal)

• Lev Nesov · Russian (personal name) · Lev Nesov, Russian paleontologist
• -ia · Latin · Latinised noun ending used in genus names

Levnesovia honours the Russian paleontologist Lev Nesov, who spent much of his career studying the Cretaceous fossils of Central Asia, including those of the Bissekty Formation in Uzbekistan. The name is Nesov's first and last names joined, with a Latinised "-ia" ending. It is a dedication to a person, not a description of the animal.

Named by

Sues and Averianov

Year named

2009

Period

Late Cretaceous

Stage

Turonian

Found in

Bissekty Formation, Dzharakuduk, Kyzylkum Desert, Uzbekistan

A plant-eating ornithopod, generally regarded as a basal hadrosauroid close to the origin of duck-billed dinosaurs (Hadrosauridae). The type species is Levnesovia transoxiana. It is known from fragmentary material.