Choyrodon
Choyrodon Temporal range: Early Cretaceous,
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Holotype skull, drawing and physical reconstruction | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Order: | †Ornithischia |
Clade: | †Ornithopoda |
Clade: | †Hadrosauriformes |
Superfamily: | †Hadrosauroidea |
Genus: | †Choyrodon |
Species: | †C. barsboldi
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Binomial name | |
†Choyrodon barsboldi Gates et al., 2018
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Choyrodon is a genus of hadrosauroid dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Albian-age Khuren Dukh Formation of Mongolia. The type and only species is Choyrodon barsboldi. The generic name is derived from the city of Choyr, and -odon, from Greek for tooth; the specific name barsboldi honours paleontologist Rinchen Barsbold. The material consists of a holotype partial skull and cervical ribs, with two other partial skulls both with associated postcranial material. It was found to be the sister taxon of Eolambia.[1]
See also[]
- 2018 in paleontology
- Timeline of hadrosaur research
References[]
- ^ Terry A. Gates; Khishigjav Tsogtbaatar; Lindsay E. Zanno; Tsogtbaatar Chinzorig; Mahito Watabe (2018). "A new iguanodontian (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) from the Early Cretaceous of Mongolia". PeerJ. 6: e5300. doi:10.7717/peerj.5300. PMC 6078070. PMID 30083450.
Categories:
- Fossil taxa described in 2018
- Iguanodonts
- Early Cretaceous dinosaurs of Asia
- Ornithischian genera
- Ornithopod stubs