Koreanosaurus (ornithopod)
Koreanosaurus (meaning "Korean lizard") is a genus of ornithopod dinosaur.In May 2003 three fossils of Koreanosaurus were found in the Late Cretaceous-age Seonso Conglomerate from the southern coast of the Bi-bong Dinosaur Fossil Findspot, Boseong, Korean Peninsula : the holotype KDRC-BB2,
a partial skeleton lacking the skull, and the paratypes KDRC-BB1 and KDRC-BB3.
The type species is Koreanosaurus boseongensis, after its discovery locality (Boseong site.
The type species was initially named and described in a master's thesis by Lee Dae-Gil in 2008, and was officially published by Min Huh, Dae-Gil Lee, Jung-Kyun Kim, Jong-Deock Lim and Pascal Godefroit in 2011.
Koreanosaurus was considered to be a basal member of the Ornithopoda by the authors, forming a clade with Zephyrosaurus schaffi, Orodromeus makelai and Oryctodromeus cubicularis from which they deduced a burrowing lifestyle.
Han et al. found it plausible that Koreanosaurus might be a member of Jeholosauridae or closely related to it.
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