| Kamuysaurus Temporal range: Early Maastrichtian,
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | †Ornithischia |
| Clade: | †Neornithischia |
| Clade: | †Ornithopoda |
| Family: | †Hadrosauridae |
| Subfamily: | †Saurolophinae |
| Tribe: | †Edmontosaurini |
| Genus: | †Kamuysaurus Kobayashi et al., 2019 |
| Type species | |
| †Kamuysaurus japonicus Kobayashi et al., 2019
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Kamuysaurus is a genus of herbivorous edmontosaurin saurolophine hadrosaurid dinosaur from Late Cretaceous Maastrichtian marine deposits of the Yezo Group (Hakobuchi Formation) in the Hobetsu area near the town of Mukawa, Hokkaido in Japan.[1][2]
- ^ Kobayashi, Yoshitsugu; Nishimura, Tomohiro; Takasaki, Ryuji; Chiba, Kentaro; Fiorillo, Anthony R.; Tanaka, Kohei; Chinzorig, Tsogtbaatar; Sato, Tamaki; Sakurai, Kazuhiko (September 5, 2019). "A New Hadrosaurine (Dinosauria: Hadrosauridae) from the Marine Deposits of the Late Cretaceous Hakobuchi Formation, Yezo Group, Japan". Scientific Reports. 9 (1): 12389. Bibcode:2019NatSR...912389K. doi:10.1038/s41598-019-48607-1. PMC 6728324. PMID 31488887.
- ^ "New hadrosaur from Japan sheds light on dinosaur diversity". phys.org.