Orthomerus ( lat. , Literally: straight thigh) is a genus of herbivorous dinosaurs of the hadrosaurid family (Hadrosauridae), who lived in the Maastrichtian century in the territory of modern Netherlands and Belgium . The genus includes a single species - Orthomerus dolloi . This lizard was four-legged and possessed a body structure characteristic of all hadrosaurids [1] .
| † Orthomerus |
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| No rank : | Bilateral symmetrical |
| Infraclass : | Archosauromorphs |
| No rank : | Archosauriformes |
| Infrastructure : | † Ornithopods |
| Parvotryad : | † Iguanodonts |
| Superfamily : | † Hadrosavroids |
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Orthomerus Seeley , 1883 |
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† Orthomerus dolloi Seeley, 1883 |
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The only species of Orthomerus doloi was discovered and named the famous British paleontologist Harry Seeley in 1883 [1] . The name of the genus Orthomerus comes from the structure of the skeleton, and the name of the species doloi is given in honor of the French-Belgian paleontologist Louis Dollo.
Since 1988, both the genus and the species have the status of nomen dubium [2] (see also Telmatosaurus ).
