| Charonosaurus Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,
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| Reconstructed skull | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | †Ornithischia |
| Clade: | †Neornithischia |
| Clade: | †Ornithopoda |
| Family: | †Hadrosauridae |
| Subfamily: | †Lambeosaurinae |
| Tribe: | †Parasaurolophini |
| Genus: | †Charonosaurus Godefroit, Zan & Jin, 2000 |
| Species: | †C. jiayinensis
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| Binomial name | |
| †Charonosaurus jiayinensis Godefroit, Zan & Jin, 2000
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Charonosaurus (/kəˌroʊnəˈsɔːrəs/ kə-ROH-nə-SOR-əs; meaning "Charon's lizard") is a genus of dinosaur whose fossils were discovered by Godefroit, Zan & Jin in 2000, on the south bank of the Amur River, dividing China from Russia. It is monotypic, consisting of the species C. jiayinensis.