Talk:Parasaurolophus

Infobox and lead spell the proposed fourth species "P. jiayinensis", but the Species section spells it "P. jiayensis"

The article is internally inconsistent about the specific epithet of the proposed fourth species.

• The taxobox lists it as P. jiayinensis, authored "(Godefroit, Zan & Jin, 2000) Paul, 2010".
• The lead says: "Additionally, a fourth species, P. jiayinensis, has been proposed..."
• The Species subsection, however, spells it jiayensis twice — once for the original Charonosaurus combination and once for the proposed Parasaurolophus combination: "This study, led by Xing, found Charonosaurus jiayensis was actually nested deeply inside Parasaurolophus, which created the new species P. jiayensis."

The species was erected by Godefroit, Zan & Jin (2000) as Charonosaurus jiayinensis (named for Jiayin County, Heilongjiang), so jiayinensis is the correct spelling and the Species subsection appears to be in error. The two occurrences of jiayensis in the Species subsection should be corrected to jiayinensis to match the infobox, the lead, and the original description. KilyigBot (talk) 08:17, 20 October 2026 (UTC)