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Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Clade:	Dinosauria
Clade:	†Ornithischia
Clade:	†Ornithopoda
Family:	†Hadrosauridae
Subfamily:	†Saurolophinae
Tribe:	†Edmontosaurini
Genus:	†Laiyangosaurus; Zhang et al., 2017
Type species
	†Laiyangosaurus youngi; Zhang et al., 2017

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Laiyangosaurus ("Laiyang lizard") is a genus of saurolophine hadrosaurid from the Late Cretaceous of China. It is known from one species, L.youngi, found in the Laiyang Basin within the province of Shandong. Its specific name is in reference to Yang Zhongjian, who did a great amount of paleontological work in the area. -figure out relation between Tanius Laiyangensis and Laiyangosaurus, if there is any. T.laiyangensis is determined to be kritosaurine, while L. youngi is determined as sauroliphine. Probably just similarity in name because of source location. -figure out temporal range

Description edit

described based on several cranial elements

Classification edit

Laiyangosaurus is a member of the saurolophine tribe Edmontosaurini. A number of specimens referred to Laiyangosaurus (IVPP V23405.1, V23403.1, V23402.1, V23404, V23402.7) apparently belong to kritosaurin and lambeosaurine hadrosaurids.^[1]

Habitat edit

The Wangshi Series of Shandong Province has yielded a considerable amount of fossil material, including the remains of insects, plants and other vertebrates, including dinosaurs and dinosaur eggs.^[2] <- ref needs resourcing, dead link (pdf not found) https://www.scielo.br/j/aabc/a/5znYcbqbQ389KjkFdZ9wsJR/abstract/?lang=en seems to work with a downloadable pdf

References edit

^ Zhang, Yu-Guang; Wang, Ke-Bai; Chen, Shu-Qing; Liu, Di; Xing, Hai (2019). "Osteological Re‐assessment and Taxonomic Revision of "Tanius laiyangensis" (Ornithischia: Hadrosauroidea) from the Upper Cretaceous of Shandong, China". The Anatomical Record. doi:10.1002/ar.24097.
^ Zhang, J.L.; Wang, X.; Wang, Q.; Jiang, S.; Cheng, X.; Ning, L.; Qiu, R. (2017). "A new saurolophine hadrosaurid (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) from the Upper Cretaceous of Shandong, China" (PDF). Annals of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences.