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The skeleton of the very weird ornithopod Koreanosaurus boseongensis based on the holotype specimen KDRC-BB2 (cervical and thoracic segments), and the paratype KDRC-BB3 (leg segment) from the Late Cretaceous of South Korea. The authors suspect that these two specimens belong to the same individual since there are no overlapping parts, and virtually no other ornithopod remains found at the site. Which makes Koreanosaurus look like a cartoon gorilla. Even if the legs belong to a second smaller individual, the arms and shoulders are still ridiculously huge. The original authors find Koreanosaurus to be an Orodromine (although they don't find a monophyletic Thescelosauridae sensu Brown, Boyd, etc), but Han, Barrett, Butler, and Xu suspect Koreanosaurus was actually a jeholosaurid. I think it's probably an orodromine, but I don't think orodromines are thescelosaurs (but I do think jeholosaurids are thescelosaurs). Scale is in centimeters, gray indicates unpreserved portions of elements present.
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So very unique I wonder with those long stocky legs would they use them for mountain climbing?