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Kritosaurus navajovius

Reptilia - Hadrosauridae

Taxonomy
Kritosaurus navajovius was named by Brown (1910). Its type specimen is AMNH 5799, a partial skull (An incomplete skull consisting of partial predentary, nearly complete dentaries, partial left and nearly complete right surangular, right splenial, angular and ), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is west of Chaco Canyon, Ojo Alamo (AMNH), which is in a Campanian terrestrial shale/sandstone in the Kirtland Formation of New Mexico.

It was recombined as Nectosaurus navajovius by Versluys (1910); it was recombined as Hadrosaurus navajovius by Lehman (1981), Weishampel and Weishampel (1983), Wolberg and Bellis (1990); it was considered a nomen dubium by Hunt and Lucas (1993); it was considered a nomen dubium by Horner et al. (2004).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1910Kritosaurus navajovius Brown p. 269 figs. 2-7
1910Nectosaurus navajovius Versluys p. 224
1914Kritosaurus navajovius Brown p. 380
1914Kritosaurus navajovius Sinclair and Granger p. 301
1916Kritosaurus navajovius Gilmore p. 281
1919Kritosaurus navajovius Parks p. 51
1920Kritosaurus navajovius Parks pp. 7-8
1924Kritosaurus navajovius Gilmore p. 34
1924Kritosaurus navajovius Reeside, Jr. p. 27
1927Kritosaurus navajovicus Huene p. 259
1930Kritosaurus navajovius Hay p. 214
1930Kritosaurus navajovius Russell p. 156
1935Kritosaurus navajovius Gilmore p. 161
1942Kritosaurus navajovius Lull and Wright p. 166
1960Kritosaurus navajovius Vialli p. 176
1964Kritosaurus navajovius Kuhn p. 21
1964Kritosaurus navajovius Tatarinov p. 564
1967Kritosaurus navajovius Charig p. 716
1973Kritosaurus navajovius Powell p. 118
1976Kritosaurus navajovius Sloan p. 137
1980Kritosaurus navajovius Wolberg p. 42
1981Hadrosaurus navajovius Lehman p. 198
1981Kritosaurus navajovius Mateer p. 55
1983Hadrosaurus navajovius Weishampel and Weishampel p. 44
1987Kritosaurus navajovius Lehman p. 207
1990Kritosaurus navajovius Weishampel and Horner p. 556
1990Hadrosaurus navajovius Wolberg and Bellis p. 113
1992Kritosaurus navajovius Horner p. 16
1992Kritosaurus navajovius Hunt and Lucas p. 228
2000Kritosaurus navajovius Williamson p. 200
2003Kritosaurus navajovius Hernandez et al. p. 61A
2003Kritosaurus navajovius Sullivan and Lucas p. 102A
2004Kritosaurus navajovius Gates p. 63A
2005Kritosaurus navajovius Sullivan et al. p. 398
2006Kritosaurus navajovius Kirkland et al. p. 310
2006Kritosaurus navajovius Lucas et al. p. 297
2006Kritosaurus navajovius Lund and Gates p. 273
2006Kritosaurus navajovius Prieto-Márquez et al. p. 88
2007Kritosaurus novajovius Gates et al. p. 928 fig. 11
2008Kritosaurus navajovius Godefroit et al. p. 66
2008Kritosaurus navajovius Hunt and Lehman p. 1127
2009Kritosaurus navajovius Wagner and Lehman p. 605
2010Kritosaurus navajovius Prieto-Marquez p. 845
2010Kritosaurus navajovius Prieto-Marquez and Salinas p. 829
2010Kritosaurus navajovius Prieto-Márquez p. 5 fig. 2
2010Kritosaurus navajovius Prieto-Márquez and Wagner p. 1243 fig. 3
2011Kritosaurus navajovius Jasinski et al. p. 250
2012Kritosaurus navajovius Godefroit et al. p. 18 fig. 19
2012Kritosaurus navajovius Prieto-Márquez p. 518
2012Kritosaurus navajovius Ramírez-Velasco et al. p. 392
2013Kritosaurus navajovius Prieto-Marquez
2014Kritosaurus navajovius Ramírez-Velasco et al. p. 356
2014Kritosaurus navajovius Rivera-Sylva and Carpenter p. 162
2014Kritosaurus navajovius Sullivan and Lucas p. 370
2016Kritosaurus navajovius Lehman et al. p. 336
2016Kritosaurus navajovius Prieto-Márquez and Gutarra p. 137
2017Kritosaurus navajovius Bertozzo et al. p. 13
2017Kritosaurus navajovius Cruzado-Caballero and Powell p. 11
2018Kritosaurus navajovius Fondevilla et al. p. 18

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
RankNameAuthor
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
—Ornithodira
—Dinosauromorpha
—Dinosauriformes
—Dinosauria()
—Ornithischia()
—Genasauria
—Cerapoda
—Ornithopoda()
—Clypeodonta
—Iguanodontia()
—Dryomorpha
—Styracosterna
—Hadrosauriformes
—Hadrosauroidea()
familyHadrosauridae
subfamilyHadrosaurinaeLambe 1918
tribeKritosauriniLapparent and Lavocat 1955
genusKritosaurus
speciesnavajovius

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Kritosaurus navajovius Brown 1910
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Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
B. Brown 1910Maxillary teeth smooth on borders. Mandibular teeth papillate on borders, median carina low, predentary deep and massive. Free edentulous portion of dentary not covered by predentary, short.
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: hydroxyapatiteo
Entire body: yesg
Adult length: 10 to < 100o
Adult width: 1.0 to < 10o
Adult height: 1.0 to < 10o
Architecture: compact or denseo
Ontogeny: accretion, modification of partso
Grouping: gregariouso
Environment: terrestrialo
Locomotion: actively mobileo
Life habit: ground dwellingo
Diet: herbivoresubo
Reproduction: oviparouso
Dispersal: direct/internalo
Dispersal 2: mobileo
Created: 2005-08-25 05:55:44
Modified: 2005-08-25 07:55:44
Source: g = genus, subo = suborder, o = order
References: Marsh 1875, Benton 1983, Peczkis 1995

Age range: Late/Upper Campanian or 83.60000 to 72.20000 Ma

Collections (8 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Campanian83.6 - 72.2USA (New Mexico) Diclonius sp. (type locality: 35518) Kritosaurus navajovius (36541 46984 47818 47820 53980 154462 154639)