| Yamatosaurus Temporal range:
early Maastrichtian | |
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| Holotype dentary seen from four angles | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | †Ornithischia |
| Clade: | †Neornithischia |
| Clade: | †Ornithopoda |
| Family: | †Hadrosauridae |
| Genus: | †Yamatosaurus Kobayashi et al. 2021 |
| Species: | †Y. izanagii
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| Binomial name | |
| †Yamatosaurus izanagii Kobayashi et al. 2021
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Yamatosaurus (meaning "Yamato reptile") is a genus of basal hadrosaurid from the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian)-aged Kita-Ama Formation of Awaji Island, Japan. The genus contains a single species, Yamatosaurus izanagii.[1]
- ^ Kobayashi, Y.; Takasaki, R.; Kubota, K.; Fiorillo, A. R. (2021). "A new basal hadrosaurid (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) from the latest Cretaceous Kita-ama Formation in Japan implies the origin of hadrosaurids". Scientific Reports. 11 (1): Article number 8547. Bibcode:2021NatSR..11.8547K. doi:10.1038/s41598-021-87719-5. PMC 8076177. PMID 33903622.