Tanius

Tanius Fossil range: Late Cretaceous
Scientific classification
Class:	Reptilia
Superorder:	Dinosauria
Order:	Ornithischia
Suborder:	Ornithopoda
Infraorder:	Iguanodontia
Superfamily:	Hadrosauroidea
Family:	Hadrosauridae
Subfamily:	Hadrosaurinae
Genus:	Tanius Wiman, 1929
Species:	T. sinensis Wiman, 1929 (type)

Tanius (meaning "of the Tan") is a genus of hadrosaurid dinosaur. It lived in the Late Cretaceous of the People's Republic of China. The type species, described in 1929 by Carl Wiman, is T. sinensis. Other species originally assigned to Tanius have been moved to other genera, including Bactrosaurus and Tsintaosaurus.

ReferencesEdit

• Wiman, C. (1929). "Die Kreide-Dinosaurier aus Shantung" Palaeontologia Sinica, Series C 6(1):1-67.

External linksEdit

• Tanius in The Dinosaur Encyclopaedia at Dino Russ's Lair
• Tanius in the Dino Directory

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