Cedrorestes
Name:
Cedrorestes
(Cedar Mountain Dweller).
Phonetic: See-dro-res-teez.
Named By: D. Gilpin, T. DiCroce &
K. Carpenter - 2007.
Classification: Chordata, Retpitlia,
Dinosauria, Ornithischia, Ornithopoda.
Species: C. crichtoni
(type).
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Unavailable.
Known locations: USA, Utah - Cedar Mountain
Formation.
Time period: Barremian of the Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Partial post cranial
remains, specifically the hip and rear legs.
Known
only from partial remains, Cedrorestes is a genus
of ornithopod
dinosaur that lived in North America during the early Cretaceous.
Cedrorestes has an uncertain classification, not
helped by the fact
the fossil bones were damaged prior to being fossilised. Some
researchers consider Cedrorestes to be in-between
an iguanodont and
hadrosaur,
while some consider it to be one of the most primitive
hadrosaurs.
Cedrorestes
means ‘Cedar Mountain Dweller’ and is a reference to the location
of the holotype fossils in the Cedar Mountain Formation. The species
name crichtoni is in honour of Michael Chricton, who in the world of
dinosaurs is best known for writing the novels Jurassic park and The
Lost World (not to be confused with the story of the same name
written by Arthur Conan Doyle) which were later made into motion
pictures.
Cedrorestes
would have possibly shared a habitat with other ornithopods such as
Iguanacolossus
and Hippodraco, nodosaurs
such as
Gastonia
and
sauropods
like Cedarosaurus.
Predatory threats would have primarily
come from dromaeosaurs
such as Utahraptor
and Yurgovuchia.
Larger
theropod dinosaurs such as Siats
and Acrocanthosaurus
are also known
from the Cedar Mountain Formation but from different members to those
that Cedrorestes has been identified in.
Further reading
- A possible new basal hadrosaur from the Lower Cretaceous Cedar
Mountain Formation of eastern Utah. - Horns and Beaks:
Ceratopsian and Ornithopod Dinosaurs 79-89. - D. Gilpin, T.
DiCroce, and K. Carpenter - 2007.
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