Amtosaurus
| Amtosaurus Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | †Ornithischia |
| Family: | †incertae sedis |
| Genus: | †Amtosaurus Kurzanov & Tumanova, 1978 |
| Species: | †A. magnus
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| Binomial name | |
| †Amtosaurus magnus Kurzanov & Tumanova, 1978
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Amtosaurus (/ˌɑːmtoʊˈsɔːrəs/) is a genus of ornithischian dinosaur based on a fragmentary skull collected from the Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian to Turonian) Bayanshiree Formation of Mongolia and originally believed to represent an ankylosaurid. Hadrosaurid affinities have also been suggested. However, according to Parish and Barrett, this specimen is too fragmentary to be reliably classified beyond an indeterminate ornithischian. A second species assigned to the genus, A. archibaldi, has become the basis of a valid ankylosaurid taxon, Bissektipelta.