"Bakesaurus" was an ornithopod

Ornithopod

Ornithopods or members of the clade Ornithopoda are a group of ornithischian dinosaurs that started out as small, bipedal running grazers, and grew in size and numbers until they became one of the most successful groups of herbivores in the Cretaceous world, and dominated the North American...

 dinosaur

Dinosaur

Dinosaurs are a diverse group of animals of the clade and superorder Dinosauria. They were the dominant terrestrial vertebrates for over 160 million years, from the late Triassic period until the end of the Cretaceous , when the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event led to the extinction of...

 from the Late Cretaceous

Late Cretaceous

The Late Cretaceous is the younger of two epochs into which the Cretaceous period is divided in the geologic timescale. Rock strata from this epoch form the Upper Cretaceous series...

 of China

China

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. It is mentioned and pictured in the Chinese book The Dinosaur Egg Fossils in Nanyang, China by Zhou S. (2005). There is still uncertainty in the scientific community as to whether or not "Bakesaurus" exists as a valid scientific name, and no specific name has surfaced. "Bakesaurus" did not appear on the Internet

Internet

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until February 2006, when it was mentioned on the Dinosaur Mailing List by paleontologist Jerry Harris.

External links

• Dinogenera (gives brief description of "Bakesaurus" (in French)