Wulagasaurus
Name:
Wulagasaurus
(Wulaga lizard).
Phonetic: Woo-lag-ah-sore-us.
Named By: Pascal Godefroit, Shulin Hai,
Tingxiang Yu and Pascaline Lauters - 2008.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia, Dinosauria,
Ornithischia, Ornithopoda, Hadrosauridae, Saurolophinae.
Species: W. dongi (type).
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Uncertain.
Known locations: China, Heilongjiang Province -
Yuliangze Formation.
Time period: Late Maastrichtian of the Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Initially described from a
partial dentary, further cranial and post cranial remains have
since been attributed to the genus.
Wulagasaurus is one of many hadrosaurs that have been found from the Amur River region. Although the genus is represented by a collection of scattered fossils in a bone bed, Wulagasaurus seems to have been a saurolophine hadrosaurid that was possibly related to Maiasaura and Bachylophosaurus. Wulagasaurus was not the only new hadrosaur discovered near the Amur River in 2008, the same team also described the lambeosaurine Sahaliyania at the same time as Wulagasaurus.
Further reading
- New hadrosaurid dinosaurs from the uppermost Cretaceous of
northeastern
China, Pascal Godefroit, Shulin Hai, Tingxiang Yu and Pascaline
Lauters - 2008.
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