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Amtosaurus

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Superorder
  
Dinosauria

Rank
  
Genus

Class
  
Reptilia

Phylum
  
Chordata

Order
  
Ornithischia

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Asiaceratops, Arstanosaurus, Anoplosaurus, Bainoceratops, Aralosaurus

Amtosaurus (/ˌɑːmtˈsɔːrəs/; Kurzanov & Tumanova, 1978) is a genus of ornithischian dinosaur based on a fragmentary skull collected from the Upper Cretaceous Bayanshiree Svita Formation (Cenomanian-Santonian) of Mongolia and originally believed to represent an ankylosaurid. Hadrosaurid affinities have also been suggested. However, per Parish and Barrett, this specimen is too fragmentary to be reliably classified beyond an indeterminate ornithischian. A second species assigned to the genus, A. archibaldi, has become the basis of a valid ankylosaurid taxon, Bissektipelta.

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Amtosaurus Wikipedia