| Gongpoquansaurus
Temporal range: Early Cretaceous, Albian
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | †Ornithischia |
| Clade: | †Neornithischia |
| Clade: | †Ornithopoda |
| Superfamily: | †Hadrosauroidea |
| Genus: | †Gongpoquansaurus You et al., 2014 |
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†G. mazongshanensis
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| †Gongpoquansaurus mazongshanensis (Lü, 1997) | |
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Gongpoquansaurus (meaning "Gongpoquan reptile") is an extinct genusofbasal hadrosauroid dinosaur that was not formally named until 2014, while the name was a nomen nudum for many years previously. It is known from IVPP V.11333, a partial skull and postcranial skeleton. It was collected in 1992 at locality IVPP 9208–21, from the Albian Zhonggou Formation (Xinminpu Group), in Mazongshan, Gansu Province, China. The specimen was first described and named by Lü Junchangin1997 as the third species of Probactrosaurus, Probactrosaurus mazongshanensis.[2] Following its description, several studies found it to be less derived than the type speciesofProbactrosaurus in relation to Hadrosauridae. Therefore, "Gongpoquansaurus" had been suggested, yet informally, as a replacement generic name.[1] In 2014, the species was formally redescribed, and the describers erected Gongpoquansaurus.[1]
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