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Hadrosauridae

Kerberosaurus manakini

"Kerberos lizard"

Generic ornithopod body-plan outline
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Kerberosaurus 9 m (29.5 ft) long
as long as 6 people standing fingertip to fingertip
generic ornithopod body plan, scaled to length — not a silhouette of Kerberosaurus
Length
9 m (29.5 ft)
Period
Late Cretaceous (66 Mya)
Place
China
Food
Herbivore
Clade
Hadrosauridae Dinosauria Ornithischia Cerapoda Ornithopoda Iguanodontia Duck-billed dinosaurs with tooth batteries.

Kerberosaurus (meaning “Kerberos lizard”) is a genus of saurolophine duckbill dinosaur from the late Maastrichtian-aged (Upper Cretaceous) Tsagayan Formation of Blagoveshchensk, Amur Region, Russia (dated to 66 million years ago). It is based on bonebed material including skull remains indicating that it was related to Saurolophus and Prosaurolophus.

What we know

  • Named by Bolotsky & Godefroit, 2004.
  • Fossils found in China.

What we guess

The reconstruction notes for Kerberosaurus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.