Arstanosaurus
| Arstanosaurus Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,
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| Hypothetical life reconstruction | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | †Ornithischia |
| Clade: | †Ornithopoda |
| Superfamily: | †Hadrosauroidea |
| Genus: | †Arstanosaurus Shilin & Suslov, 1982 |
| Species: | †A. akkurganensis
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| Binomial name | |
| †Arstanosaurus akkurganensis Shilin & Suslov, 1982
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Arstanosaurus (meaning "Arstan lizard" after the Arstan well) is a genus of hadrosauroid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous-aged (Santonian-Campanian) Bostobe Formation of Kazakhstan. It has had a confusing history, being considered a hadrosaurid, a ceratopsid, or both at the same time (chimeric).