Mandschurosaurus

Manchurian lizard

• Mandschu- · German (from Manchuria) · Manchuria
• sauros · Greek · lizard

The name combines the German spelling of Manchuria (Mandschurei), the region of northeastern China where the fossils were found, with the Greek word for lizard. It was chosen to mean 'lizard from Manchuria', after the place where the type specimens were discovered, near the Amur River.

Named by

Riabinin

Year named

1925

Period

Late Cretaceous

Stage

Maastrichtian

Found in

Yuliangze Formation, Heilongjiang (Manchuria), northeastern China, on the Amur River

A hadrosaurid (duck-billed dinosaur). The type species is M. amurensis. The material is fragmentary and the genus is generally regarded as doubtful or poorly diagnosed, so some sources treat it differently. Other specimens once assigned to it have been reassigned to other hadrosaurids.