Kazaklambia
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Life restoration of a juvenile
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | †Ornithischia |
| Clade: | †Ornithopoda |
| Family: | †Hadrosauridae |
| Subfamily: | †Lambeosaurinae |
| Genus: | †Kazaklambia Phil R. Bell & Kirstin S. Brink, 2013 |
| Type species | |
| †Procheneosaurus convincens | |
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Kazaklambia is an
Dabrazinskaya Svita (Santonian stage) of southern Kazakhstan. It contains a single species, Kazaklambia convincens.[1]
Discovery and naming
Kazaklambia was first described in
Description
Bell & Brink suggested that Kazaklambia is morphologically distinct from other
Eurasian taxa and known juvenile lambeosaurines at a similar ontogenetic stage in having a prefrontal process of the postorbital with a thickened dome lateral to the frontal dome, doming of the nasal above and in front of the orbit
, and a frontal length/width ratio of less than one.
Classification
Bell and Brink (2013) assigned Kazaklambia to the Lambeosaurinae, in a basal position. Morphometrics and morphological information suggest that Kazaklambia might be closely related to the basal lambeosaurines from Asia Amurosaurus and Tsintaosaurus, which was seen as proving an Asian origin of the Lambeosaurinae.[1]
See also
References
- ^ .
- ^ Rozhdestvensky, A.K. (1968). "Hadrosaurs of Kazakhstan". In Tatarinov L.P.; et al. (eds.). Upper Paleozoic and Mesozoic Amphibians and Reptiles (in Russian). Moscow: Akademia Nauk SSSR. pp. 97–141.
- ^ G.A. Belen’kiy, “Geological structure of the Tashkent area Chule,” Tashkent Gos. Univ., New Series, No. 181, pp. 1-181, 1961
- ISBN 0-520-24209-2.
- ISBN 0-521-55476-4.