Sahaliyania

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{{Short description|Extinct genus of dinosaurs}}
{{Short description|Extinct genus of dinosaurs}}
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==Discovery==
==Discovery==
[[File:Sahaliyania restoration.jpg|thumb|left|Restoration]]
[[File:Sahaliyania restoration.jpg|thumb|left|[[Life restoration]]]]
[[File:Sahaliyania hip.jpg|thumb|left|Hip bones]]
[[File:Sahaliyania hip.jpg|thumb|left|Hip bones]]
Its remains were found in a [[bonebed]] in the [[Maastrichtian]]-age [[Yuliangze Formation]], alongside rarer remains of the [[hadrosaurinae|hadrosaurine]] hadrosaurid (flat-headed duckbill) ''[[Wulagasaurus]]''. ''Sahaliyania'' was named by [[Pascal Godefroit]] and colleagues in 2008. It is one of several hadrosaurids from the Amur River region named since 2000. The [[type species|type]] and only species to date is ''S. elunchunorum'', named in honor of the [[Oroqen people|Elunchun]] people.<ref name=PGetal08>{{cite journal |last=Godefroit |first=Pascal |author2=Hai Shulin |author3=Yu Tingxiang |author4= Lauters, Pascaline |year=2008 |title=New hadrosaurid dinosaurs from the uppermost Cretaceous of north−eastern China |journal=Acta Palaeontologica Polonica |volume=53 |issue=1 |pages=47–74 |url=http://www.app.pan.pl/archive/published/app53/app53-047.pdf |doi=10.4202/app.2008.0103|doi-access=free }}</ref>
Its remains were found in a [[bonebed]] in the [[Maastrichtian]]-age [[Yuliangze Formation]], alongside rarer remains of the [[hadrosaurinae|hadrosaurine]] hadrosaurid (flat-headed duckbill) ''[[Wulagasaurus]]''. ''Sahaliyania'' was named by [[Pascal Godefroit]] and colleagues in 2008. It is one of several hadrosaurids from the Amur River region named since 2000. The [[type species|type]] and only species to date is ''S. elunchunorum'', named in honor of the [[Oroqen people|Elunchun]] people.<ref name=PGetal08>{{cite journal |last=Godefroit |first=Pascal |author2=Hai Shulin |author3=Yu Tingxiang |author4= Lauters, Pascaline |year=2008 |title=New hadrosaurid dinosaurs from the uppermost Cretaceous of north−eastern China |journal=Acta Palaeontologica Polonica |volume=53 |issue=1 |pages=47–74 |url=http://www.app.pan.pl/archive/published/app53/app53-047.pdf |doi=10.4202/app.2008.0103|doi-access=free }}</ref>
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