KAMUYSAURUS
a hadrosaurine hadrosaurid hadrosauroid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Japan.
Pronunciation: KAH-muy-SOR-us
Meaning: Kamuy lizard
Author/s: Kobayashi
et al. (
2019)
Synonyms: None known
First Discovery: Hokkaido, Japan
Acta Ordinal: #1022
Kamuysaurus japonicus
(Kamuy Lizard of Japan)Etymology
Kamuysaurus is derived from "Kamuy" (a deity of the indigenous people of Japan's Hokkaido Island known as the Ainu) and the Greek "sauros" (lizard).
The
species epithet,
japonicus, refers to Japan.
Discovery
The first remains of
Kamuysaurus were discovered in the middle of the IVb unit of the Hakobuchi Formation (Yezo Group), along Shirafunezawa Creek in the northern Hobetsu area of Mukawa town, on the island of Hokkaido, Japan, by amateur paleontologist and Mukawa resident Yoshiyuki Horita in 2003.
The
holotype (HMG-1219—housed at the Hobetsu Museum, in the Hobetsu area of Mukawa town, Hokkaido, Japan), is nearly complete skeleton with the skull and jaws.
Estimations
Timeline:
Era: Mesozoic
Epoch: Late Cretaceous
Stage: Maastrichtian
Age range: 72-70 mya
Stats:
Est. max. length: 8 meters
Est. max. hip height: ?
Est. max. weight: 5 tons
Diet: Herbivore
References
• Hokkaido University (2019) "
A new duck-billed dinosaur, Kamuysaurus japonicus, identified".
EurekAlert!
• Kobayashi Y, Nishimura T, Takasaki R, Chiba K, Fiorillo AR, Tanaka K, Chinzorig T, Sato T and Sakurai K (2019) "
A New Hadrosaurine (Dinosauria: Hadrosauridae) from the Marine Deposits of the Late Cretaceous Hakobuchi Formation, Yezo Group, Japan".
Scientific Reports, 9(1): 12389. DOI:10.1038/s41598-019-48607-1.
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