| Plesiohadros Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, 80–75 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓ | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | †Ornithischia |
| Clade: | †Neornithischia |
| Clade: | †Ornithopoda |
| Superfamily: | †Hadrosauroidea |
| Genus: | †Plesiohadros Tsogtbaatar et al., 2014 |
| Type species | |
| Plesiohadros djadokhtaensis Tsogtbaatar et al., 2014 | |
Plesiohadros (meaning "near to hadrosaurids") is an extinct genus of hadrosauroid dinosaur. It is known from a partial skeleton including the skull collected at Alag Teg locality, from the Campanian Alagteeg Formation of southern Mongolia. The type species is Plesiohadros djadokhtaensis.
Paleoecology
Plesiohadros is the only known hadrosaur from the Alagteeg Formation.
References
- Tsogtbaatar, K.; Weishampel, D.; Evans, D. C.; Watabe, M. (2014). "A New Hadrosauroid (Plesiohadros djadokhtaensis) from the Late Cretaceous Djadokhtan Fauna of Southern Mongolia". In Eberth, D. A.; Evans, D. C. (eds.). Hadrosaurs. Indiana University Press. pp. 108−135. ISBN 978-0-253-01385-9.
- Hasegawa, H.; Tada, R.; Ichinnorov, N.; Minjin, C. (2009). "Lithostratigraphy and depositional environments of the Upper Cretaceous Djadokhta Formation, Ulan Nuur basin, southern Mongolia, and its paleoclimatic implication". Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 35 (1): 13−26. Bibcode:2009JAESc..35...13H. doi:10.1016/j.jseaes.2008.11.010.
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