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Anasazisaurus > A.horneri
BYU 12950 [holotype]: partial skull
("Anasazi
lizard" Named after the Anasazi, an ancient people of the American
southwest) For a hook-nosed skull attributed to the species Kritosaurus
navajovius by Jack Horner in 1992. Hunt and Lucas considered
Kritosaurus a nomen dubium, based on undiagnostic type material, and
proposed the new name for a taxon distinguished by "possessing a
short, posteriorly folded nasal crest that is above the level of the
frontals, but does not extend posterior to the anterior end of the
frontals." Anasazisaurus and Naashoibitosaurus
representing possible variants of K.
navajovius. |