Penelopognathus
Name:
Penelopognathus
(Penelope’s jaw).
Phonetic: Pe-nel-o-po-nay-fus.
Named By: P. Godefroit, H. Li, &
C.-Y. Shang - 2005.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia, Dinosauria,
Ornithischia, Ornithopoda, Iguanodontia, Hadrosauroidea.
Species: P. weishampeli
(type).
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Unknown.
Known locations: Mongolia - Bayan Gobi Formation.
Time period: Aptian of the Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Partial jaw.
Penelopognathus is a genus of hadrosauroid dinosaur that lived in Mongolia during the early Cretaceous. Unfortunately, because only a partial jaw of this dinosaur has been recovered, not much is known about Penelopognathus.
Further reading
- A new primitive hadrosauroid
dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of
Inner Mongolia (P. R. China). - Comptes Rendus Palevol
4(8):697-705. - P. Godefroit, H. Li, & C.-Y.
Shang - 2005.
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