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SHAMOSAURUS
(sham-o-sore-us)
meaning: "Shamo lizard - After the Shamo (Gobi"
Named By: Tumanova in 1983
Time Period: Early Cretaceous, Aptian-Albian
Location: Mongolia - Khukhtekskaya Formation
Size: Uncertain due to incomplete remains
Diet: Herbivore
Fossil(s): Complete skull and lower jaw, additional post cranial remains have been attributed to the genus
Classification: | Chordata | Reptilia | Dinosauria | Ornithischia | Thyreophora | Ankylosauria | Ankylosauridae |
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Shamosaurus is an extinct genus of herbivorous basal ankylosaurid ankylosaur from Early Cretaceous (Aptian to Albian stage) deposits of Hoovor, Mongolia.

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