Named By: | Godefroit, Zan & Jin in 2000 |
Time Period: | Late Cretaceous, 66 Ma |
Location: | China - Jilin Province - Yuliangze Formation |
Size: | Estimated up to 10 meters long |
Diet: | Herbivore |
Fossil(s): | Partial skull and additional post cranial remains later referred to it |
Classification: | | Chordata | Reptilia | Dinosauria | Ornithischia | Ornithopoda | Hadrosauridae | Parasaurolophini | |
Charonosaurus ( ka-ROH-na-SAWR-as; meaning "Charon's lizard") is the name of a genus of dinosaur whose fossils were discovered by Godefroit, Zan & Jin in 2000 on the south bank of the Amur River, dividing China from Russia.