KAZAKLAMBIA
a plant-eating lambeosaurine hadrosaurid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Kazakstan.
Pronunciation: kah-zak-LAM-bee-uh
Meaning: Kazakh lambeosaurine
Author/s: Bell and Brink (
2013)
Synonyms: See
below
First Discovery: Syuk-Syuk, Kazakstan
Discovery Chart Position: #846
Kazaklambia convincens
(Convincing Kazakh Lambeosaurine)Etymology
Kazaklambia is derived from "Kazak" (a reference to Kazakhstan, the country in which the holotype specimen was found) and "lambia" (denoting its affiliation to
Lambeosaurinae).
The
species epithet,
convincens means "convincing" in Latin, and refers to Rozhdestvensky's (1968) conviction that this specimen proved a Late Cretaceous age for the Dabrazinskaya Svita as it was found in a rock layer directly above the so-called "dinosaur horizon": the point where the Late Cretacous was previously thought to meet the Paleogene and signal the end of the age of dinosaurs.
Procheneosaurus convincens (Rozhdestvensky, 1968)
Corythosaurus convincens (Nesov, 1995)
Discovery
The remains of
Kazaklambia were discovered in the Dabrazinskaya Svita (Dabrazhin Formation) at the Syuk-Syuk village well site, 45 km northwest of Tashkent (the capital of Uzbekistan) in southeastern Kazakhstan, by G.A. Belen'kiy in 1961.
The
holotype (PIN 2230/1) is a nearly complete skull and skeleton missing only the snout, parts of the hands and feet, and the end of the tail.
Estimations
Timeline:
Era: Mesozoic
Epoch: Late Cretaceous
Stage: Santonian
Age range: 86-84 mya
Stats:
Est. max. length: ?
Est. max. hip height: ?
Est. max. weight: ?
Diet: Herbivore
References
• Efremov IA (1944) "The dinosaur horizon of Central Asia and some questions of stratigraphy".
Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Geologicheskaya, 3: 40-58. (In Russian)
• Belen'kiy GA "1961) "Geological structure of the Tashkent area Chule".
Tashkent Gos. Univ., New Series, No. 181, pp. 1-181.
• Rozhdestvenskiy AK (1968) "
Hadrosaurs of Kazakhstan". Page 97-141 in Tatarinov
et al. (eds.) "Upper Paleozoic and Mesozoic Amphibians and Reptiles".
Akademia Nauk S.S.S.R., Moscow. [English translation by W. Robert Welsh.]
• Nesov LA (1995) "Dinozavri severnoi Yevrasii: Novye dannye o sostave kompleksov, ekologii i paleobiogeografii" [Dinosaurs of Northern Eurasia: New Data about Assemblages, Ecology and Paleobiogeography].
Scientific Research Institute of the Earth's Crust, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia: pp 156.
• Benton MJ, Shishkin MA, Unwin DM and Kurochkin EN (2003) "
The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia".
• Horner JR, Weishampel DB and Forster CA (2004) "Hadrosauridae" in Weishampel, Dodson, and Osmólska (eds.) "
The Dinosauria: Second Edition".
• Bell PR and Brink KS (2013) "
Kazaklambia convincens comb. nov., a primitive juvenile lambeosaurine from the Santonian of Kazakhstan".
Cretaceous Research. DOI: 10.1016/ j.cretres.2013.05.003.
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