Glishades

Name: Glishades.
Phonetic: Gle-shaydz.
Named By: A.‭ ‬Prieto-Márquez‭ ‬-‭ ‬2010.
Classification: Chordata,‭ ‬Reptilia,‭ ‬Dinosauria,‭ ‬Ornithischia,‭ ‬Ornithopoda,‭ ‬Hadrosauroidea.
Species: G.‭ ‬ericksoni‭ (‬type‭)‬.
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Uncertain.
Known locations: USA,‭ ‬Montana‭ ‬-‭ ‬Two Medicine Formation.
Time period: Campanian of the Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Fragmentary remains.

       Glishades is a genus of hadrosauroid dinosaur that lived in North America during the late Cretaceous.‭ ‬Since a paper was published suggesting that Glishades is actually an indeterminate juvenile‭ (‬Campione et al,‭ ‬2012‭)‬,‭ ‬the genus has become widely regarded as a nomen dubium.

Further reading
-‭ ‬Glishades ericksoni,‭ ‬a new hadrosauroid‭ (‬Dinosauria:‭ ‬Ornithopoda‭) ‬from the Late Cretaceous of North America.‭ ‬Zootaxa‭ ‬2452:1-17.‭ ‬-‭ ‬A.‭ ‬Prieto-Márquez‭ ‬-‭ ‬2010.
-‭ ‬Glishades ericksoni‭’‬,‭ ‬an indeterminate juvenile hadrosaurid from the Two Medicine Formation of Montana:‭ ‬implications for hadrosauroid diversity in the latest Cretaceous‭ (‬Campanian-Maastrichtian‭) ‬of western North America.‭ ‬-‭ ‬Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments.‭ ‬-‭ ‬Nicolás E.‭ ‬Campione,‭ ‬Kirstin S.‭ ‬Brink,‭ ‬Elizabeth A.‭ ‬Freedman,‭ ‬Christopher T.‭ ‬McGarrity‭ & ‬David C.‭ ‬Evans‭ ‬-‭ ‬2012.

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