Penelopognathus

Penelopognathus ("wild duck jaw") is a genus of dinosaur which lived during the Early Cretaceous. It was an iguanodont ancestral to hadrosaurids. Fossils have been found in the Bayin-Gobi Formation in what is now China. The type species, Penelopognathus weishampeli, was described by Godefroit, Li, and Shang in 2005, based on fragmentary jaw fossils.[1] It was named after David Weishampel.

Penelopognathus
Temporal range: Early Cretaceous, Albian
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Sauropsida
Superorder:
Dinosauria
Order:
†Ornithischia
Suborder:
†Ornithopoda
Infraorder:
†Iguanodontia
Superfamily:
†Hadrosauroidea
Genus:
†Penelopognathus
Binomial name
†Penelopognathus weishampeli
Godefroit, Li, and Shang, 2005


References
  1. Godefroit, P., Li, H., and Shang, C.Y. (2005). "A new primitive hadrosauroid dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of Inner Mongolia (P.R. China)". Comptes Rendus Palevol 4(8):697-705. doi:10.1016/j.crpv.2005.07.004.


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