| Sasayamagnomus Temporal range: Early Cretaceous,
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | †Ornithischia |
| Clade: | †Neornithischia |
| Clade: | †Ceratopsia |
| Clade: | †Neoceratopsia |
| Genus: | †Sasayamagnomus Tanaka et al., 2024 |
| Species: | †S. saegusai
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| †Sasayamagnomus saegusai Tanaka et al., 2024
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Sasayamagnomus (meaning "Gnome from Sasayama") is a genus of neoceratopsian dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous (Albian) Ohyamashimo Formation of Hyogo prefecture, Japan. The genus contains a single species, S. saegusai.[1] Type specimen is estimated to reach 80 centimetres (2.6 ft) long, although this specimen is not fully grown.[2]
- ^ Tanaka, Tomonori; Chiba, Kentaro; Ikeda, Tadahiro; Ryan, Michael J. (September 2024). "A new neoceratopsian (Ornithischia, Ceratopsia) from the Lower Cretaceous Ohyamashimo Formation (Albian), southwestern Japan". Papers in Palaeontology. 10 (5). doi:10.1002/spp2.1587.
- ^ "兵庫県で発見の角竜類の化石 新属新種と確認 | お知らせ・トピックス". 岡山理科大学 (in Japanese). Retrieved 2024-09-04.